Thematic Bible




Isaiah 7:1 (show verse)

This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up [to] Jerusalem for warfare against it, but he was not able to fight against it.

Isaiah 7:2 (show verse)

When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of [the] forest because of [the] wind.

Isaiah 7:3 (show verse)

Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on [the] highway of [the] washer's field.

Isaiah 7:4 (show verse)

And you must say to him, 'Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, {because of the fierce anger of} Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.

Isaiah 7:5 (show verse)

Because Aram has plotted evil against you [with] Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

Isaiah 7:6 (show verse)

"Let us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, {and let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves}, and let us install the son of Tabeel [as] king in her midst."

Isaiah 7:7 (show verse)

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.

Isaiah 7:8 (show verse)

For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

Isaiah 7:9 (show verse)

And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure." '"

Isaiah 7:10 (show verse)

And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying,

Isaiah 7:11 (show verse)

"Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make [it] deep [as] Sheol or make [it] high as above."

Isaiah 7:12 (show verse)

But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test."

Isaiah 7:13 (show verse)

Then he said, "Hear, house of David! [Is it] too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?

Isaiah 7:14 (show verse)

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin [is] with child and she is about to give birth [to] a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'

Isaiah 7:15 (show verse)

He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good.

Isaiah 7:16 (show verse)

For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}

Isaiah 7:17 (show verse)

"Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since [the] day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 7:18 (show verse)

And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that [is] at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:19 (show verse)

And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places.

Isaiah 7:20 (show verse)

On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond [the] river--with the king of Assyria--and it will even take off the beard.

Isaiah 7:21 (show verse)

And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of [the] herd and two sheep alive.

Isaiah 7:22 (show verse)

And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

Isaiah 7:23 (show verse)

And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver [pieces] will become briers, and it will be thornbushes.

Isaiah 7:24 (show verse)

One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes.

Isaiah 7:25 (show verse)

And [as for] all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, [for] fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland [for] cattle and overtrodden land [for] sheep.