81 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
81 lines
3.8 KiB
Markdown
## Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz
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Now it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to _wage_ war against it, but could not conquer it.
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When it was told to the house of David, saying, "The Arameans have camped in Ephraim," his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
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Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, to the highway of the fuller's field,
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and say to him, 'Take care and stay quiet, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the burning anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
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Because Aram, _with_ Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has counseled evil against you, saying,
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"Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"
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thus says Lord Yahweh: "It shall not stand, nor shall it happen.
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For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, _so that it is_ no longer a people),
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and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not establish your faith _in Yahweh_, you surely shall not be established."'"
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## The Sign of Immanuel
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Then Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
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"Ask a sign for yourself from Yahweh your God; make _it_ deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
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###### 12
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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test Yahweh!"
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###### 13
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Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?
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Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
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He will eat curds and honey in order that He will know to refuse evil and choose good.
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For before the boy will know to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.
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Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house days which have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah--the king of Assyria!"
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## Trials to Come for Judah
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And it will be in that day, _that_ Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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And they will all come and rest upon the steep ravines, on the crevices of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places.
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In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor--_one_ hired from regions beyond the River (_that is_, the king of Assyria)--the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.
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And it will be in that day, _that_ a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;
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and because of the abundance of the milk produced, he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.
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And it will be in that day, _that_ every place where there used to be one thousand vines, _valued_ at one thousand _shekels_ of silver, will become briars and thorns.
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_People_ will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.
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As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.
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