Isaiah 7

The Sign of Immanuel

1 When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.
2 Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with[a] Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[b] to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
4 Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son have plotted your ruin, saying,
6 “Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.”
7 Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘It will not take place, it will not happen,
8 for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’ ”
10 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,
11 “Ask the LORD your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test.”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[c] a sign: The virgin[d] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[e] will call him Immanuel.[f]
15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,
16 for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”

Assyria, the LORD’s Instrument

18 In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.
20 In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also.
21 In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.
22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.
23 In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[g] there will be only briers and thorns.
24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
25 As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.

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Cross References 67

  • 1. S 1 Chronicles 3:13
  • 2. S ver 8; S 2 Kings 15:37
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 28:5
  • 4. S 2 Kings 15:25
  • 5. ver 5,9; Isaiah 8:6
  • 6. ver 13; S 2 Samuel 7:11; Isaiah 16:5; Isaiah 22:22; Jeremiah 21:12; Amos 9:11
  • 7. Isaiah 9:9; Hosea 5:3
  • 8. Isaiah 6:4; Daniel 5:6
  • 9. Isaiah 10:21-22
  • 10. 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 36:2
  • 11. Isaiah 30:15; Lamentations 3:26
  • 12. S Genesis 15:1; S Deuteronomy 3:2; Isaiah 8:12; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 37:6; Matthew 24:6
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 20:3; S Isaiah 21:4
  • 14. Amos 4:11; Zechariah 3:2
  • 15. Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 54:14
  • 16. S 2 Kings 15:27
  • 17. S ver 1
  • 18. ver 2
  • 19. Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 28:16
  • 20. Psalms 2:1; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 28:18; Isaiah 40:8; Isaiah 46:10; Acts 4:25
  • 21. S Genesis 14:15
  • 22. ver 1; Isaiah 9:11
  • 23. 2 Kings 17:24; Isaiah 8:4; Isaiah 17:1-3
  • 24. S 2 Kings 15:29; Isaiah 9:9; Isaiah 28:1,3
  • 25. S Psalms 20:8; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 40:8
  • 26. 2 Chronicles 20:20
  • 27. Isaiah 8:6-8; Isaiah 30:12-14
  • 28. S Exodus 7:9; S Deuteronomy 13:2
  • 29. Psalms 139:8
  • 30. Deuteronomy 4:34
  • 31. S ver 2
  • 32. S Genesis 30:15
  • 33. S Isaiah 1:14
  • 34. Psalms 63:1; Psalms 118:28; Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 49:4; Isaiah 61:10
  • 35. S Exodus 3:12; S Luke 2:12
  • 36. S Genesis 24:43
  • 37. S Genesis 3:15; Luke 1:31
  • 38. S Genesis 21:22; Isaiah 8:8,10; Matthew 1:23*
  • 39. S Genesis 18:8
  • 40. ver 22
  • 41. Isaiah 8:4
  • 42. Deuteronomy 1:39
  • 43. S Deuteronomy 13:16; Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 7:15; Hosea 5:9,13; Amos 1:3-5
  • 44. 1 Kings 12:16
  • 45. S ver 20; S 2 Chronicles 28:20
  • 46. ver 20,21; S Isaiah 2:11
  • 47. S Isaiah 5:26
  • 48. Isaiah 13:5
  • 49. S Isaiah 2:19
  • 50. ver 25; Isaiah 17:9; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 55:13
  • 51. S ver 18
  • 52. Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 29:16
  • 53. Isaiah 11:15; Jeremiah 2:18
  • 54. ver 17; 2 Kings 18:16; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 10:5
  • 55. S 2 Samuel 10:4
  • 56. S Deuteronomy 28:49
  • 57. ver 23; Isaiah 2:17
  • 58. Jeremiah 39:10
  • 59. S Genesis 18:8
  • 60. ver 15; Isaiah 14:30
  • 61. ver 21
  • 62. Song of Songs 8:11
  • 63. S Isaiah 5:6; Hosea 2:12
  • 64. S Isaiah 5:6
  • 65. Haggai 1:11
  • 66. S ver 19
  • 67. S Isaiah 5:17

Footnotes 7

  • [a]. Or "has set up camp in"
  • [b]. "Shear-Jashub" means "a remnant will return."
  • [c]. The Hebrew is plural.
  • [d]. Or "young woman"
  • [e]. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls "son, and he" or "son, and they"
  • [f]. "Immanuel" means "God with us."
  • [g]. That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

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