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</span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>therefore thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">It shall not stand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and it shall not come to pass.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>For the head of Aram is Damascus,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the head of Damascus is Rezin.</span></span></p></div><p><span class="text">(Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, no longer a people.)</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.</span></span><br /><span class="text">If you do not stand firm in faith,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you shall not stand at all.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Isaiah Gives Ahaz the Sign of Immanuel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Again the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> spoke to Ahaz, saying, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Ask a sign of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to the test. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then Isaiah<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21682d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> said: “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21683e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-21683f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>On that day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will whistle for the fly that is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</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></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>On that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will take off the beard as well.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>On that day one will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give; for everyone that is left in the land shall eat curds and honey.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>With bow and arrows one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>and as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:2">Isaiah 7:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>his heart</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:3">Isaiah 7:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>A remnant shall return</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:6">Isaiah 7:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>cut it off</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:13">Isaiah 7:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:14">Isaiah 7:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>the virgin</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 7:14">Isaiah 7:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>God is with us</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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