1And it happened 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. 2And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. 3Then Yehovah said to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field; 4and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear, nor let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you, saying, 6Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and let us make a breach in it for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7thus says the Lord Yehovah, It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass. 8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people: 9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established. 10And Yehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11Ask a sign of Yehovah your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I test Yehovah. 13And he said, Hear now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also? 14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15He shall eat butter and honey, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. 17Yehovah will bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah— even the king of Assyria. 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yehovah will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19And they shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures. 20In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone who is left in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey. 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, shall be for briers and thorns. 24With arrows and with bow one shall come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25And all the hills that were dug with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.