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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/isaiah/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Sign of Immanuel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or has set up camp in">a</a></sup></span> Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Shear-Jashub means a remnant will return.">b</a></sup></span> to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son have plotted your ruin, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet this is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“ ‘It will not take place,</p><p class="line2">it will not happen,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>for the head of Aram is Damascus,</p><p class="line2">and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.</p><p class="line1">Within sixty-five years</p><p class="line2">Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</p><p class="line2">and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.</p><p class="line1">If you do not stand firm in your faith,</p><p class="line2">you will not stand at all.’ ”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Again the <span class="name">Lord</span> spoke to Ahaz, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Ask the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the <span class="name">Lord</span> to the test.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of 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 <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew is plural.">c</a></sup></span> a sign: The virgin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or young woman">d</a></sup></span> will conceive and give birth to a son, and <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they">e</a></sup></span> will call him Immanuel. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Immanuel means God with us.">f</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Assyria, the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s Instrument</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the <span class="name">Lord</span> will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms">g</a></sup></span> there will be only briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>has set up camp in</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Shear-Jashub</i> means <i>a remnant will return.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew is plural.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>young woman</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls <i>son, and he</i> or <i>son, and they</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Immanuel</i> means <i>God with us.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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