49 lines
3.2 KiB
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49 lines
3.2 KiB
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# Chapter 7
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1 This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah: Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah went to fight against Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it.
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2 When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.
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3 The Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Launderer’s Field.
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4 Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly because of these two smoldering sticks, the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.
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5 For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted harm against you. They say,
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6 ‘Let’s go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’”
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7 This is what the Lord God says:
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It will not happen; it will not occur.
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8 The chief city of Aram is Damascus,
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the chief of Damascus is Rezin
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(within sixty-five years
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Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
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9 the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria,
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and the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
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If you do not stand firm in your faith,
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then you will not stand at all.
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10 Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz:
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11 “Ask for a sign from the Lord your God—it can be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”
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12 But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the Lord.”
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13 Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?
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14 Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign: See, the virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel.
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15 By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating curds and honey.
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16 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.
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17 The Lord will bring on you, your people, and your father’s house such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah: He will bring the king of Assyria.”
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18 On that day
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the Lord will whistle to flies
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at the farthest streams of the Nile
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and to bees in the land of Assyria.
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19 All of them will come and settle
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in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,
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in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
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20 On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards.
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21 On that day
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a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
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22 and from the abundant milk they give
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he will eat curds,
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for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.
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23 And on that day
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every place where there were a thousand vines,
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worth a thousand pieces of silver,
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will become thorns and briers.
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24 A man will go there with bow and arrows
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because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
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25 You will not go to all the hills
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that were once tilled with a hoe,
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for fear of the thorns and briers.
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Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
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and for sheep to trample. |