Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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.
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 doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good. 16 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. 17 Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:4
for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'
Deuteronomy 1:39
'And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;
2 Kings 15:29-30
In the days of Pekah king of Israel hath Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur come, and taketh Ijon, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removeth them to Asshur.
2 Kings 16:9
And hearken unto him doth the king of Asshur, and the king of Asshur goeth up unto Damascus, and seizeth it, and removeth the people of it to Kir, and Rezin he hath put to death.
Isaiah 9:11
And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,
Isaiah 17:1-3
The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from being a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
Hosea 5:9
Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.
Amos 1:3-5
And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,
Jonah 4:11
and I -- have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left -- and much cattle!'