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They say, <span id="v29007006" class="ver">6</span>“Let us go up against Judah, tear it apart, make it our own by force, and appoint the son of Tabeel<a id="rfn29007006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007006-1">*</a> king there.”</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29007007" class="ver">7</span>Thus says the Lord <span class="tetr">God</span>:</p> <p class="sl1">It shall not stand, it shall not be!<a id="ren29007007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007007-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29007008" class="ver">8</span><a id="rfn29007008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007008-1">*</a> The head of Aram is Damascus,</p> <p class="sl1">and the head of Damascus is Rezin;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29007009" class="ver">9</span>The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</p> <p class="sl1">and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.</p> <p class="sl">Within sixty-five years,</p> <p class="sl1">Ephraim shall be crushed, no longer a nation.</p> <p class="sl">Unless your faith is firm,</p> <p class="sl1">you shall not be firm!<a id="ren29007009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007009-d">d</a></p> </div> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Emmanuel.</span> <span id="v29007010" class="ver">10</span>Again the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke to Ahaz: <span id="v29007011" class="ver">11</span>Ask for a sign from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God; let it be deep as Sheol, or high as the sky!<a id="rfn29007011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007011-1">*</a> <span id="v29007012" class="ver">12</span>But Ahaz answered, “I will not ask! I will not tempt the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>!”<a id="rfn29007012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007012-1">*</a> <span id="v29007013" class="ver">13</span>Then he said: Listen, house of David! Is it not enough that you weary human beings? Must you also weary my God? <span id="v29007014" class="ver">14</span>Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign;<a id="rfn29007014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007014-1">*</a> the young woman, pregnant and about to bear a son, shall name him Emmanuel. <span id="v29007015" class="ver">15</span>Curds and honey<a id="rfn29007015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007015-1">*</a> he will eat so that he may learn to reject evil and choose good; <span id="v29007016" class="ver">16</span>for before the child learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of those two kings whom you dread shall be deserted.</p> <p><span id="v29007017" class="ver">17</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall bring upon you and your people and your father’s house such days as have not come since Ephraim seceded<a id="rfn29007017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007017-1">*</a> from Judah (the king of Assyria). <span id="v29007018" class="ver">18</span>On that day</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall whistle</p> <p class="sl1">for the fly in the farthest streams of Egypt,</p> <p class="sl1">and for the bee in the land of Assyria.<a id="ren29007018-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007018-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29007019" class="ver">19</span>All of them shall come and settle</p> <p class="sl1">in the steep ravines and in the rocky clefts,</p> <p class="sl1l">on all thornbushes and in all pastures.</p> </div> <p><span id="v29007020" class="ver">20</span><a id="rfn29007020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007020-1">*</a> On that day the Lord shall shave with the razor hired from across the River (the king of Assyria) the head, and the hair of the feet; it shall also shave off the beard.<a id="ren29007020-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007020-f">f</a></p> <p><span id="v29007021" class="ver">21</span>On that day a man shall keep alive a young cow or a couple of sheep, <span id="v29007022" class="ver">22</span>and from their abundant yield of milk he shall eat curds; curds and honey shall be the food of all who are left in the land. <span id="v29007023" class="ver">23</span><a id="rfn29007023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29007023-1">*</a> On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns. <span id="v29007024" class="ver">24</span>One shall have to go there with bow and arrows, for all the country shall be briers and thorns.<a id="ren29007024-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007024-g">g</a> <span id="v29007025" class="ver">25</span>But as for all the hills which were hoed with a mattock, for fear of briers and thorns you will not go there; they shall become a place for cattle to roam and sheep to trample.<a id="ren29007025-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29007025-h">h</a></p> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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