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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 7 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/6.htm" 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">A Message for King Ahaz</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.1" class="v23_7_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When King Ahaz, the son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah, ruled Judah, war broke out. Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, attacked Jerusalem, but were unable to capture it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.2" class="v23_7_2">2</span>When word reached the king of Judah that the armies of Syria were already in the territory of Israel, he and all his people were so terrified that they trembled like trees shaking in the wind.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.3" class="v23_7_3">3</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Isaiah, “Take your son Shear Jashub,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and go to meet King Ahaz. You will find him on the road where the cloth makers work, at the end of the ditch that brings water from the upper pool. </span><span class="v23_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.4" class="v23_7_4">4</span>Tell him to keep alert, to stay calm, and not to be frightened or disturbed. The anger of King Rezin and his Syrians and of King Pekah is no more dangerous than the smoke from two smoldering sticks of wood. </span><span class="v23_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.5" class="v23_7_5">5</span>Syria, together with Israel and its king, has made a plot. </span><span class="v23_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.6" class="v23_7_6">6</span>They intend to invade Judah, terrify the people into joining their side, and then put Tabeel's son on the throne.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.7" class="v23_7_7">7</span>“But I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, declare that this will never happen. </span><span class="v23_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.8" class="v23_7_8">8</span>Why? Because Syria is no stronger than Damascus, its capital city, and Damascus is no stronger than King Rezin. As for Israel, within sixty-five years it will be too shattered to survive as a nation. </span><span class="v23_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.9" class="v23_7_9">9</span>Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_9">“If your faith is not enduring, you will not endure.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Sign of Immanuel</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.10" class="v23_7_10">10</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> sent another message to Ahaz: </span><span class="v23_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.11" class="v23_7_11">11</span>“Ask the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God to give you a sign. It can be from deep in the world of the dead or from high up in heaven.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.12" class="v23_7_12">12</span>Ahaz answered, “I will not ask for a sign. I refuse to put the <span class="nd">Lord</span> to the test.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.13" class="v23_7_13">13</span>To that Isaiah replied, “Listen, now, descendants of King David. It's bad enough for you to wear out the patience of people—do you have to wear out God's patience too? </span><span class="v23_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.14" class="v23_7_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Well then, the Lord himself will give you a sign: a young woman<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.14!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> who is pregnant will have a son and will name him ‘Immanuel.’<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.14!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v23_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.15" class="v23_7_15">15</span>By the time he is old enough to make his own decisions, people will be drinking milk and eating honey.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.7.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v23_7_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.16" class="v23_7_16">16</span>Even before that time comes, the lands of those two kings who terrify you will be deserted.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.17" class="v23_7_17">17</span>“The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is going to bring on you, on your people, and on the whole royal family, days of trouble worse than any that have come since the kingdom of Israel separated from Judah—he is going to bring the king of Assyria.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.18" class="v23_7_18">18</span>“When that time comes, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will whistle as a signal for the Egyptians to come like flies from the farthest branches of the Nile, and for the Assyrians to come from their land like bees. </span><span class="v23_7_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.19" class="v23_7_19">19</span>They will swarm in the rugged valleys and in the caves in the rocks, and they will cover every thorn bush and every pasture.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.20" class="v23_7_20">20</span>“When that time comes, the Lord will hire a barber from across the Euphrates—the emperor of Assyria!—and he will shave off your beards and the hair on your heads and your bodies.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.21" class="v23_7_21">21</span>“When that time comes, even if a farmer has been able to save only one young cow and two goats, </span><span class="v23_7_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.22" class="v23_7_22">22</span>they will give so much milk that he will have all he needs. Yes, the few survivors left in the land will have milk and honey to eat.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_7_23"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.23" class="v23_7_23">23</span>“When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers. </span><span class="v23_7_24"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.24" class="v23_7_24">24</span>People will go hunting there with bows and arrows. Yes, the whole country will be full of briers and thorn bushes. </span><span class="v23_7_25"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.7.25" class="v23_7_25">25</span>All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.3: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Shear Jashub: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “A few will come back” (see 10.20-22).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.14: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">young woman: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew word here translated “young woman” is not the specific term for “virgin,” but refers to any young woman of marriageable age. The use of “virgin” in Mt 1.23 reflects a Greek translation of the Old Testament, made some 500 years after Isaiah.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.14: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Immanuel: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This name in Hebrew means “God is with us.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.15: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">milk and honey: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">These foods were associated with the earlier days of Israel's history.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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