Isaiah 7:1-16 - The Sign To Ahaz

¹ 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. ² 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.

³ 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. ⁴ 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. ⁵ Because Aram has plotted evil against you [with] Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, ⁶ "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."

⁷ Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. ⁸ 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. ⁹ 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." '"

¹⁰ And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying, ¹¹ "Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make [it] deep [as] Sheol or make [it] high as above."

¹² But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test."

¹³ 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? ¹⁴ 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.' ¹⁵ He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good. ¹⁶ For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, {the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.}