For before the [a]child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, he shall take away the riches of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria, before the [b]King of Assyria.

¶ And the Lord spake yet again unto me, saying,

Because this people hath refused the waters of [c]Shiloah that run softly, and rejoice with Rezin, and the son of Remaliah,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:4 Before any child be able to speak.
  2. Isaiah 8:4 That is, the army of Assyria.
  3. Isaiah 8:6 Which was a fountain at the foot of mount Zion, out of the which ran a small river through the city: meaning, that they of Judah, distrusting their own power, which was small, desired such power and riches as they saw in Syria and Israel.

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