MLV(i)
1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, King of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. And his heart trembled and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.
3 Then Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the launder's field.
4 And say to him, Take heed and be quiet. Do not fear, nor let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah and besiege it and let us make a breach in it for us and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel,
7 the lord Jehovah says thus: It will not stand, nor will it happen.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken in pieces, so that is will not be a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you* will not believe, surely you* will not be established.
10 And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask you a sign of Jehovah your God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I challenge Jehovah.
13 And he said, Hear now, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you* to weary men, that you* will weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you* a sign: Behold, a virgin will conceive and bear a son and will call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey will he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child will know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor will be forsaken.
17 Jehovah will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah–even} the king of Assyria.
18 And it will happen in that day, that Jehovah will whistle for the fly that is in the outermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will come and will rest all of them in the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks and upon all thorn-hedges and upon all pastures. 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet and it will also consume the beard.
21 And it will happen in that day, that a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep. 22 And it will happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they will give he will eat butter. For everyone who is left in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
23 And it will happen in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, will be for briers and thorns. 24 Men will come there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but it will be for the sending forth of oxen and for the treading of sheep.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken in pieces, so that is will not be a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you* will not believe, surely you* will not be established.
10 And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask you a sign of Jehovah your God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I challenge Jehovah.
13 And he said, Hear now, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you* to weary men, that you* will weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you* a sign: Behold, a virgin will conceive and bear a son and will call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey will he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child will know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor will be forsaken.
17 Jehovah will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah–even} the king of Assyria.
18 And it will happen in that day, that Jehovah will whistle for the fly that is in the outermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will come and will rest all of them in the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks and upon all thorn-hedges and upon all pastures. 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet and it will also consume the beard.
21 And it will happen in that day, that a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep. 22 And it will happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they will give he will eat butter. For everyone who is left in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
23 And it will happen in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver coins, will be for briers and thorns. 24 Men will come there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but it will be for the sending forth of oxen and for the treading of sheep.