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title="Isaiah 6">◄</a> Isaiah 7 <a href="../isaiah/8.htm" title="Isaiah 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Syria has rested upon">a</a></sup></span> Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew his heart">b</a></sup></span> and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Shear-jashub means A remnant shall return">c</a></sup></span> your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew let us split it open">d</a></sup></span> for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“‘It shall not stand,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it shall not come to pass.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the head of Syria is Damascus,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the head of Damascus is Rezin.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">And within sixty-five years</span><br /><span class="indent">Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">If you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14">e</a></sup></span> are not firm in faith,</span><br /><span class="indent">you will not be firm at all.’”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Sign of Immanuel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Again the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Ahaz: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Ask a sign of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew for you and your is singular in verses 11, 16, 17">f</a></sup></span> God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to the test.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Isaiah">g</a></sup></span> said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Immanuel means God is with us">h</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or watering holes, or brambles">i</a></sup></span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the Euphrates">j</a></sup></span>—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">k</a></sup></span> of silver, will become briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">Syria</span> has rested upon</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Hebrew <i>his heart</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <i class="catch-word">Shear-jashub</i> means <i>A remnant shall return</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">let us</span> split it open</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> The Hebrew for <i class="catch-word">you</i> is plural in verses 9, 13, 14<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> The Hebrew for <i>you</i> and <i class="catch-word">your</i> is singular in verses 11, 16, 17<br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> That is, Isaiah<br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <i class="catch-word">Immanuel</i> means <i>God is with us</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>watering holes</i>, or <i>brambles</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> That is, <span class="catch-word">the</span> Euphrates<br /><span class="footnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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