Isa 7
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And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king
of Juda, there came up Rasim king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel,
against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not Lit. besiege; See Hebrew take it.
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And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim.
And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved
by the wind.
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And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, you, and your son Jasub who is
left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller’s field.
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And you shall say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let your soul
be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger
is over, I will heal again.
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And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, seeing that as they have devised
an evil counsel, saying,
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We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away
to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;
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thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.
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But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within
sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.
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And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias: but
Compare Hebrew if you believe not, neither will you at all understand.
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And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying,
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Ask for yourself a sign of the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height.
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And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
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And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend
with men? and how do you contend against the Lord?
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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Mt 1:23 behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth
a son, and you
shall call his name Emmanuel.
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Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose the
good.
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For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good;
and the land shall be forsaken which you are afraid of because of the two kings.
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But God shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon the house of your father,
days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king
of the Assyrians.
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And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, Or, which part of the enemy, etc. shall rule
over the river of Egypt; but according
to Alex. the reading in the text is the right one which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee
which
is in the land of the Assyrians.
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And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks,
and into the caves, and into every ravine.
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In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond
the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.
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And it shall come to pass from their Alex. poiein, «giving’ drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on
the land shall eat
butter and honey.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand
vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become Gr. for land and for a thorn barren land and thorns.
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Men shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground
and thorns.
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And every mountain shall be certainly ploughed: there shall no fear come there: for
there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed
and oxen shall tread.