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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Isaiah 7 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/isaiah/7.htm" /><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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it was told the house of David, saying: ‘Aram is confederate with Ephraim.’ And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then said the LORD unto Isaiah: ‘Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers’ field; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and say unto him: Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>thus saith the Lord GOD:<br></div><div class="po2">It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For the head of Aram is Damascus,</div><div class="po2">And the head of Damascus is Rezin;</div><div class="po2">And within threescore and five years</div><div class="po2">Shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,</div><div class="po2">And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.</div><div class="po2">If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.’</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Ahaz said: ‘I will not ask, neither will I try the LORD.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said: ‘Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">b</a></span>Immanuel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, That the LORD shall hiss for the fly</div><div class="po2">That is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,</div><div class="po2">And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they shall come, and shall rest all of them</div><div class="po2">In the rugged valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,</div><div class="po2">And upon all thorns, and upon all brambles.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also sweep away the beard. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a young cow, and two sheep; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat curd; for curd and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, A remnant shall return.<br>{fn: b} That is, God is with us.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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