1.  AND it came to pass in the days of

Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of

Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin

the king of Syria , and Pekah the

son of Remaliah, king of Israel , went

up toward Jerusalem to war against

it, but could not prevail against it.

2.  And it was told the house of Dav-

id, saying, Syria is confederate

with Ephraim. And his heart was

moved, and the heart of his people,

as the trees of the wood are moved

with the wind.

3.  Then said the LORD unto Isaiah,

Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou,

and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end

of the conduit of the upper pool in

the highway of the fuller's field;

4.  And say unto him, Take heed,

and be quiet; fear not, neither be

fainthearted for the two tails of

these smoking firebrands, for the

fierce anger of Rezin with Syria , and

of the son of Remaliah.

5.  Because Syria , Ephraim, and the

son of Remaliah, have taken evil

counsel against thee, saying,

6.  Let us go up against Judah , and

vex it, and let us make a breach

therein for us, and set a king in the

midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

7.  Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall

not stand, neither shall it come to

pass.

8.  For the head of Syria is Damas-

cus , and the head of Damascus is

Rezin; and within threescore and

five years shall Ephraim be broken,

that it be not a people.

9.  And the head of Ephraim is Sam-

aria , and the head of Samaria is Re-

maliah's son. If ye will not believe,

surely ye shall not be established.

10.  ¶ Moreover the LORD spake a-

gain unto Ahaz, saying,

11.  Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy

God; ask it either in the depth, or in

the height above.

12.  But Ahaz said, I will not ask,

neither will I tempt the LORD.

13.  And he said, Hear ye now, O

house of David; Is it a small thing

for you to weary men, but will ye

weary my God also?

14.  Therefore the Lord himself shall

give you a sign; Behold, a virgin

shall conceive, and bear a son, and

shall call his name Immanuel.

15.  Butter and honey shall he eat,

that he may know 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 thou abhor-

rest shall be forsaken of both her

kings.

17.  ¶ The LORD shall bring upon

thee, and upon thy people, and upon

thy father's house, days that have

not come, from the day that Eph-

raim departed from Judah ; even the

king of Assyria .

18.  And it shall come to pass in that

day, that the LORD shall hiss for the

fly that is in the uttermost part of

the rivers of Egypt , and for the be

e that is in the land of Assyria .

19.  And they shall come, and shall

rest all of them in the desolate val-

leys, and in the holes of the rocks,

and upon all thorns, and upon all

bushes.

20.  In the same day shall the Lord

shave with a razor that is hired,

namely, by them beyond the river,

by the king of Assyria , the head, and

the hair of the feet: and it shall also

consume the beard.

21.  And it shall come to pass in that

day, that a man shall nourish a

young cow, and two sheep;

22.  And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall

give he shall eat butter: for butter

and honey shall every one eat that is

left in the land.

23.  And it shall come to pass in that

day, that every place shall be, where

there were a thousand vines at a

thousand silverlings, it shall even be

for briers and thorns.

24.  With arrows and with bows shall

men come thither; because all the land

shall become briers and thorns.

25.  And on all hills that shall be

digged with the mattock, there

shall not come thither the fear of

briers and thorns: but it shall be for

the sending forth of oxen, and for

the treading of lesser cattle.