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Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son [a]Shear-jashub, at the end of the (A)conduit of the upper pool, to the highway of the [b]fuller’s field, and say to him, ‘Take care and stay (B)quiet, have no (C)fear and (D)do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering (E)firebrands, on account of the burning anger of Rezin and Aram and the (F)son of Remaliah. Because (G)Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has counseled evil against you, saying, “Let us go up against Judah and [c]terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in [d]its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” thus says Lord Yahweh: “(H)It shall not stand, nor shall it happen. For the head of Aram is (I)Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people), and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. (J)If you do not [e]establish your faith in Yahweh, you surely shall not [f]be established.”’”

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  1. Isaiah 7:3 Lit a remnant shall return
  2. Isaiah 7:3 Or launderer’s
  3. Isaiah 7:6 Lit cause it a sickening dread
  4. Isaiah 7:6 Lit it
  5. Isaiah 7:9 Lit believe
  6. Isaiah 7:9 Lit be believed

So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool that proceeds along the highway to Launderer’s Field. Tell him, ‘Be careful, be calm, don’t be afraid, and don’t lose heart because of these two smoldering stumps of torches, that is, because of[a] the fierce anger of Rezin, from Aram, and Remaliah’s son. Aram, Ephraim, and Remaliah’s son have plotted this evil against you: “Let’s go attack Judah, let’s terrorize it, and let’s conquer it for ourselves. Then we’ll install Tabeel’s son as king!”’

‘But this is what the Lord God has to say:

“‘It won’t take place.
    It won’t ever happen.
Because Aram’s head is Damascus,
    and Rezin is its king,[b]
within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
Furthermore, Ephraim’s head is Samaria,
    and Remaliah’s son is its king.[c]
If all of you don’t keep on believing,
    you’ll never remain loyal.’”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:4 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks because of
  2. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. is head of Damascus
  3. Isaiah 7:9 Lit. is head of Samaria
  4. Isaiah 7:9 Or never keep on enduring