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Don’t be afraid or cowardly<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> because of these two smoldering sticks, the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted harm against you. They say, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>‘Let’s go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’ ”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This is what the Lord G<span class="smallcaps">od</span> says:</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem">It will not happen; it will not occur.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The chief city of Aram is Damascus,</p><p class="poem">the chief of Damascus is Rezin</p><p class="poem">(within sixty-five years</p><p class="poem">Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria,</p><p class="poem">and the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.</p><p class="poem">If you do not stand firm in your faith,</p><p class="poem">then you will not stand at all.</p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">The Immanuel Prophecy</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> spoke again to Ahaz: <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Ask for a sign<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> from the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> your God — it can be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>.”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Isaiah<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.13.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, the Lord himself will give you<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.7.14.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> a sign: See, the virgin will conceive,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.7.14.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a> have a son, and name him Immanuel.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.7.14.3"><span class="fnAlphabet">C</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> he will be eating curds<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.7.15.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> and honey.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.15.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> will bring on you, your people, and your father’s house such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> He will bring the king of Assyria.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.17.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On that day<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.18.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> will whistle<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.18.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> to flies</p><p class="poem">at the farthest streams of the Nile</p><p class="poem">and to bees in the land of Assyria.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>All of them will come and settle</p><p class="poem">in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.</p></blockquote><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>On that day the Lord will use a razor<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.20.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> hired from beyond the Euphrates River — the king of Assyria<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.20.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> — to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards.</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>On that day</p><p class="poem">a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.22" /> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and from the abundant milk they give</p><p class="poem">he will eat curds,</p><p class="poem">for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.22.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.23" /> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And on that day</p><p class="poem">every place where there were a thousand vines,</p><p class="poem">worth a thousand pieces of silver,</p><p class="poem">will become thorns and briers.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.7.23.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.24" /> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>A man will go there with bow and arrows</p><p class="poem">because the whole land will be thorns and briers.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.7.25" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You will not go to all the hills</p><p class="poem">that were once tilled with a hoe,</p><p class="poem">for fear of the thorns and briers.</p><p class="poem">Those hills will be places for oxen to graze</p><p class="poem">and for sheep to trample.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Isaiah.7" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.2.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.2">7:2</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Aram has rested upon Ephraim, his heart</span></aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.3">7:3</a></span> = A Remnant Will Return</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.14.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.14">7:14</a></span> In Hb, the word <span class="italic">you</span> is pl</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.14.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.14">7:14</a></span> Or <span class="italic">virgin is pregnant, will</span></aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.14.3"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.14">7:14</a></span> = God With Us</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.7.15.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.15">7:15</a></span> Or <span class="italic">sour milk</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Isaiah.7" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.1">7:1</a></span> Is 1:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.1">7:1</a></span> 2Kg 15:25,37; 16:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.2">7:2</a></span> Is 7:13; 9:7; 16:5; 22:9,22; 29:1; 37:35; 38:5; 55:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.2.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.2">7:2</a></span> Is 8:12; 9:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.3">7:3</a></span> Is 8:3,18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.3">7:3</a></span> 2Kg 18:17; Is 36:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.4">7:4</a></span> Gn 15:1; Ex 14:13; 20:20; Nm 14:9; Dt 20:3; 31:6; Jos 10:8,25; Is 10:24; 35:4; 41:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.7">7:7</a></span> Is 8:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.11">7:11</a></span> 2Kg 19:29; Is 37:30; 38:7–8; 55:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.13">7:13</a></span> Mt 3:3; 12:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.13.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.13">7:13</a></span> Is 1:14; 43:24; Jr 15:6; 20:9; Mal 2:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.14">7:14</a></span> Is 8:8,10; Mt 1:23; Lk 1:31</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.15">7:15</a></span> Dt 1:39</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.15.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.15">7:15</a></span> Ex 3:8; 2Sm 17:29; Is 7:22; 8:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.17">7:17</a></span> 1Kg 12:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.17.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.17">7:17</a></span> 2Ch 28:20; Is 8:7–8; 10:5–6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.18.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.18">7:18</a></span> Is 27:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.18.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.18">7:18</a></span> Is 5:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.19">7:19</a></span> Is 2:19; Jr 16:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.20.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.20">7:20</a></span> 2Kg 18:13–16; Is 24:1; Ezk 5:1–4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.20.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.20">7:20</a></span> Is 8:7; 11:15; Jr 2:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.22.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.22">7:22</a></span> Is 8:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.7.23.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.7.23">7:23</a></span> Is 5:6</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Isaiah.7" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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