Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken before both its kings.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Holman Bible
For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.
International Standard Version
However, before the youth knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated."
A Conservative Version
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhor shall be forsaken.
American Standard Version
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
Amplified
For before the child will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land (Canaan) whose two kings you dread will be deserted [both Ephraim and Aram].
Bible in Basic English
For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
Darby Translation
For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.
Julia Smith Translation
For before the boy shall know to reject in evil and to choose in good the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken from the face of its two kings.
King James 2000
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken by both her kings.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For before the child come to knowledge, to eschew the evil and chose the good, the land that thou so abhorest shall be desolate of both her kings.
NET Bible
Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.
New Heart English Bible
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
The Emphasized Bible
for before the boy knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good, forsaken shall be the land, at which, thou, art alarmed, of the presence of both her kings.
Webster
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.
World English Bible
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
Youngs Literal Translation
For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
Themes
Ahaz » King of judah, son and successor of jotham » Prophecies concerning
The tribe of Ephraim » The leading tribe of the kingdom of israel
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denounces calamities against israel and judah
Syria » Prophecies respecting » Destruction of rezin king of
Interlinear
Na`ar
Yada`
Ra`
Bachar
Towb
Paniym
`azab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 7:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Immanuel Prophecy
15 Butter and honey he shall eat until he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you loathe shall be forsaken before both its kings. 17 Jehovah shall bring on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, since the days that Ephraim departed from Judah, the king of Assyria.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:4
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Deuteronomy 1:39
And your little ones, who you said would be a prey, and your sons who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there. And I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
2 Kings 15:29-30
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he deported them to Assyria.
2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria listened to him, for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it. And he carried it away captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
Isaiah 9:11
And Jehovah shall set up the foes of Rezin against him, and spur on his enemies;
Isaiah 17:1-3
The burden against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins.
Hosea 5:9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which is confirmed.
Amos 1:3-5
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
Jonah 4:11
And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left hand, besides much cattle?