Isaiah 7

God's Assurance Through Isaiah Isaiah 7:5–9

⁵Verse 5. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying, ⁶Verse 6. “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.” ⁷Verse 7. This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” ⁸Verse 8. For 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; ⁹Verse 9. and 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.’”

The Sign of Immanuel Isaiah 7:10–14

¹⁰Verse 10. Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ¹¹Verse 11. “Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.” ¹²Verse 12. But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.” ¹³Verse 13. He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also? ¹⁴Verse 14. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Judgment and Future Desolation Isaiah 7:15–25

¹⁵Verse 15. He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. ¹⁶Verse 16. For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. ¹⁷Verse 17. Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. ¹⁸Verse 18. It will happen in that day that Yahweh 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.

¹⁹Verse 19. They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. ²⁰Verse 20. In 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. ²¹Verse 21. It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; ²²Verse 22. and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

²³Verse 23. It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. ²⁴Verse 24. People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. ²⁵Verse 25. All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”