1In the time of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up against Jerusalem to besiege it; but he could not prevail against it. 2And when it was told the house of David, that the Syrians had encamped in Ephraim, his heart was moved, and the hearts of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. 3Then said Jehovah to Isaiah, Go forth to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, in the way to the fuller’s field; 4and say to him: Take heed, and be quiet! Fear not, neither let thy heart he faint On account of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, On account of the fierce wrath of Rezin with the Syrians, and of the son of Remaliah, 5Because Syria deviseth evil against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, 6"Let us go up against Judah, and besiege the city, And take it, And set a king in the midst of it, Even the son of Tabeal." 7Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: "It shall not stand, neither shall it be; 8But the head of Syria shall still be Damascus, And the head of Damascus, Rezin; [And within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that he be no more a people.] 9And the head of Ephraim shall still be Samaria, And the head of Samaria, the son of Remaliah. If ye will not believe, neither shall ye thrive." 10Jehovah spake also again to Ahaz: 11"Ask thee a sign of Jehovah, thy God; Ask it from below, or in the height above!" 12And Ahaz said, I will not ask; I will not tempt Jehovah! 13Then he said, Hear ye now, O house of David! Is it too small a thing for you to weary men, That ye should weary my God also? 14Therefore shall Jehovah himself give you a sign: Behold, the damsel shall conceive, and bear a son, And she shall call his name Immanuel. 15Milk and honey shall he eat, Until he learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good; 16For before this child shall have learned to refuse the evil and choose the good, The land shall become desolate, On account of whose two kings thou art in terror. 17Yet Jehovah shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, Days such as have not been Since Ephraim revolted from Judah. [Even the king of Assyria.] 18And it shall come to pass in that day That Jehovah shall whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, And the bee that is in the land of Assyria, 19And they shall come, and light all of them In the desolate valleys, and fissures of the rocks, And upon all hedges, and upon all pastures. 20In that day shall Jehovah shave, with a razor hired beyond the river, [with the king of Assyria,] The head, and the hair of the feet; Yea, even the beard shall he take away. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, That a man shall keep a young cow, and two sheep; 22And for the abundance of milk which they produce, shall he eat cheese; For milk and honey shall all eat Who are left in the land, 23And it shall come to pass in that day, That every place where stood a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, Shall be covered with briers and thorns. 24With arrows and with bows shall men go thither; For all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25All the hills that were digged with the mattock Shall no one approach through fear of briers and thorns; They shall be for the pasturage of oxen, And the trampling of sheep.