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Isaiah 7

War against Jerusalem

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Now it came about in the days of  aAhaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that  bRezin the king of Aram and  cPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but  dcould not  1conquer it.

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When it was reported to the  ahouse of David, saying, "The Arameans  1 bhave camped in  cEphraim," his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake  2with the wind.

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Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son  1Shear-jashub, at the end of the  aconduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the  2fuller's field,

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and say to him, `Take care and be  acalm, have no  bfear and  cdo not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering  dfirebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the  eson of Remaliah.

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`Because  aAram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

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"Let us go up against Judah and  1terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in  2its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"

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thus says the Lord  1GOD: " aIt shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

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"For the head of Aram is  aDamascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 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.  aIf you will not believe, you surely shall not  1last.""'

The Child Immanuel

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Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

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"Ask a  asign for yourself from the LORD your God;  1make it deep as Sheol or high as  2heaven."

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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!"

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Then he said, "Listen now, O  ahouse of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will  btry the patience of  cmy God as well?

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"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold,  aa  1virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name  2 bImmanuel.

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"He will eat  acurds and honey  1at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

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aFor before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good,  bthe land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

Trials to Come for Judah

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"The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house such days as have never come since the day that  aEphraim separated from Judah, the  bking of Assyria."

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In that day the LORD will  awhistle for the fly that is in the  1 bremotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

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They will all come and settle on the steep  1ravines, on the  aledges of the cliffs,  bon all the thorn bushes and on all the  2watering places.

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In that day the Lord will  ashave with a  brazor,  chired from regions beyond  dthe  1Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

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Now in that day a man may keep alive a  aheifer 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  acurds and honey.

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And it will come about in that day,  athat every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become  bbriars 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  1 apasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.



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