Isaiah 7:3-9
New Living Translation
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Take your son Shear-jashub[a] and go out to meet King Ahaz. You will find him at the end of the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.[b] 4 Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesn’t need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned-out embers, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah. 5 Yes, the kings of Syria and Israel are plotting against him, saying, 6 ‘We will attack Judah and capture it for ourselves. Then we will install the son of Tabeel as Judah’s king.’ 7 But this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“This invasion will never happen;
it will never take place;
8 for Syria is no stronger than its capital, Damascus,
and Damascus is no stronger than its king, Rezin.
As for Israel, within sixty-five years
it will be crushed and completely destroyed.
9 Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria,
and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah.
Unless your faith is firm,
I cannot make you stand firm.”
Isaiah 7:3-9
English Standard Version
3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and (A)Shear-jashub[a] your son, at the end of (B)the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 4 And say to him, (C)‘Be careful, (D)be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two (E)smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and (F)the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and (G)the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it[b] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7 thus says the Lord God:
(H)“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is (I)Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is (J)the son of Remaliah.
(K)If you[c] are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 7:3 Shear-jashub means A remnant shall return
- Isaiah 7:6 Hebrew let us split it open
- Isaiah 7:9 The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14
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