1. And it was in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king
of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram [or Syria], and Pekah, son of Remaliah,
king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war against it; and he was
not able to war against it. 2. And it was told the house of David,
saying, Syria resteth upon Ephraim: and his heart and the heart of
the people shook, like the shaking of the trees of a wood before a
wind.
3. And Jehovah said to Isaiah son of Amoz, Go out to meet Ahaz, thou
and Shear-jashub thy son, to the end of the conduit of the upper
pool, to the highway of the fuller's field. 4. And thou shalt say to
him, Be cautious and be quiet; fear not, nor let thy heart be soft
before these two smoking tails of firebrands, in the heat of the
anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. 5. Because Syria
has devised evil against thee, also Ephraim and Remaliah's son,
saying, 6. We will go up into Judah and vex it, and make a breach in
it (thereby subduing it) to ourselves, and let us make a king in the
midst of it, to wit, the son of Tabeal: 7. thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, It shall not stand, and it shall not be; 8. because the head
of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, for in yet
sixty-and-five years shall Ephraim be broken from (being) a people;
9. for the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is
Remaliah's son. If you will not believe (it is) because you are not
to be established.
10. And Jehovah added to speak unto Ahaz, saying, 11. Ask for thee a
sign from Jehovah thy God, ask deep or high above. 12. And Ahaz said,
I will not ask, and I will not tempt Jehovah. 13. And he said, Hear,
I pray you, O house of David! is it too little for you to weary men,
that you weary my God? 14. Therefore the Lord Himself will give you
sign. Behold! the virgin pregnant and bringing forth a son, and she
calls his name Immanuel. 15. Curds and honey shall he eat until he
shall know (how) to reject the evil and choose the good; 16. for
before the child shall know (how) to reject the evil to choose the
good, the land, of whose two kings thou art afraid, shall be forsaken.
17. Jehovah will bring upon thee, and on thy people, and on thy
father's house, days which have not come since the departure of
Ephraim from Jacob, to wit, the king of Assyria. 18. And it shall be
in that day that Jehovah will whistle for the fly which is in the
edge of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in Assyria;
19. and they come and rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and
in the clefts of rocks, and in all thorn-hedges, and in all pastures.
20. In that day will the Lord shave, with a razor hired in the parts
beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of
the feet, and also the beard will it take away. 21. And it shall be
in that day (that) a man shall save alive a young cow and two sheep;
22. and it shall be (that) from the abundance of the yielding of
milk, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat
that is left in the midst of the land. 23. And it shall be in that
day (that) every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a
thousand silverlings, shall be for thorns and briers. 24. With arrows
and with bows shall one go thither, because thorns and briers shall
the whole land be; 25. and all the hills which are digged with the
hoe, thou shalt not go (even) there for fear of briers and thorns,
and they shall be for a sending-place of cattle and a trampling-place
of sheep.
VIII.--1. And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write
upon it with a man's pen, to Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2. And I
(Jehovah) will take to witness for me credible witnesses, to wit,
Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, son of Jeberechiah.
3. And I approached unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bare a
son, and Jehovah said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz:
4. for before the child shall know (how) to cry, My father, and my
mother, they shall take away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of
Samaria before the king of Assyria.