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 to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart shook, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
And thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends (tails) of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein, the son of Tabeal;
thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be not a people.
And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
And Jehovah spoke again unto Ahaz, saying,
Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God: ask it in the depth or in the height above.
But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah.
And he said, Hear then, house of David. [Is it] a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God?
Therefore will Jehovah Himself give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.
Curds and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and to choose the good.
For before the youth knoweth to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land, because of whose two kings thou art alarmed, shall be forsaken .
Jehovah will bring upon thee and upon thy father’s house days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah—the king of Assyria.
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will hiss for the fly that [is] in the uppermost part of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that [is] in the land of Assyria;
and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.
In that day will Jehovah with a razor hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, it will also consume the beard.
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
And it shall come to pass for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give, he shall eat curds: for curds and honey shall every one eat [that is] left in the land.
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place where were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings shall become briars and thorns.
With arrows and with bow shall they come thither, because the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
And all the hills that were hoed with the hoe, thither they will not come for fear of briars and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.