Old/New Testament
7 And in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (king of Judah), Rezin, the king of Aram, came up—and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel—to Jerusalem, to fight against it. But he could not overcome it.
2 And it was told to the House of David, saying, “Aram has joined with Ephraim.” Therefore, his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved by the wind.
3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz (you and Shear-Jashub, your son), at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the fuller’s field,
4 “and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be still. Do not fear or be fainthearted because of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, because of the furious wrath of Rezin and of Aram and of Remaliah’s son.’
5 “Because Aram has taken wicked counsel against you, Ephraim and Remaliah’s son, saying,
6 ‘Let us go up against Judah. And let us wake them up and make a breach therein for ourselves and set a king in the midst thereof: the son of Tabel.’”
7 Thus says the LORD God: “It shall not stand, nor shall it be.
8 “For the head of Aram is Damascus. And the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years, Ephraim shall be destroyed from being a people.
9 “And the head of Ephraim is Samaria. And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you do not believe, surely you shall not be established.”
10 And the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
11 “Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God. Ask it in the depth beneath or in the height above.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I tempt the LORD.”
13 Then he said, “Hear now, O House of David. It is a small thing for you to grieve men. But will you also grieve my God?”
14 “Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son. And she shall call His Name, ‘Immanuel’.
15 “Butter and honey shall He eat, until He has knowledge to refuse evil and to choose good.
16 “For before the Child shall have knowledge to eschew evil, and to choose good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.
17 “The LORD shall bring the king of Assyria upon you, and upon your people, and your Father’s House (days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah).”
18 And on that day shall the LORD whistle for the fly that is at the uttermost parts of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come and shall all light in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorny places, and upon all bushy places.
20 On that day shall the LORD shave with a hired razor, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet. And it shall consume the beard.
21 And on the same day shall a man nourish a young cow and two sheep.
22 And because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter. For everyone shall eat butter and honey which is left within the land.
23 And on the same day that every place which once had a thousand vines sold for a thousand pieces of silver, shall be briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
25 But on all the mountains which shall be dug with the mattock, the fear of briers and thorns shall not come. But they shall be for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheep.
8 Moreover, the LORD said to me, “Take a great scroll and write with a man’s pen: ‘Make speed to the spoil. Hurry to the prey.’”
2 Then I took to myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the Priest and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
3 Afterward, I went in to the Prophetess, who conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
4 “For before the 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 king of Assyria.”
5 And the LORD spoke yet again to me, saying,
6 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah (which run softly) and rejoice with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7 “now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings up the waters of the river upon them, mighty and great. And the king of Assyria, with all his glory, shall come up upon all their rivers and go over all their banks,
8 “and shall break into Judah, shall overflow and pass through, shall come up to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
9 “Gather together on heaps, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces! And listen, all you from far countries! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces!”
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to nothing. Pronounce a decree, but it shall not stand. For God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke this to me, in the taking of my hand, and taught me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy’ to all that which this people says is conspiracy, or fear their fear or be afraid of them.
13 “Sanctify the LORD of Hosts and let Him be your fear. And let Him be your dread.
14 “And He shall be a Sanctuary; but as a stumbling stone to both the Houses of Israel, and as a rock to fall upon, and as a snare, and as a net to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 “And many among them shall stumble, and shall fall, and shall be broken, and shall be snared, and shall be taken.
16 “Bind up the Testimony. Seal up the Law among My disciples.”
17 Therefore, I will wait upon the LORD, Who has hidden His Face from the House of Jacob. And I will look for Him.
18 Behold, I, and the children whom the LORD has given me, are as signs and as wonders in Israel, by the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say to you, “Inquire of those who have a spirit of divination and of the soothsayers who whisper and murmur”, should not a people inquire of their God, rather than the living of the dead?
20 Inquire of the Law and of the Testimony. If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 Then those who are afflicted and famished shall wander to and fro. And when they become hungry, they shall be enraged and curse their king and his gods and shall look upward.
22 And when they shall look to the earth, they shall behold trouble and darkness, vexation and anguish, and shall be driven to wickedness.
2 And you were dead in trespasses and sins
2 (wherein you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the authority of the ruler of the air, even the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom all of us also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind; and were, by nature, the children of wrath, just as the rest).
4 But God, Who is rich in mercy, through His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead by sins, has quickened us together in Christ (by grace you are saved)
6 and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus;
7 so that He might show, in the ages to come, the exceeding riches of His grace through His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are you saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift from God
9 (not of works, lest anyone should boast).
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works; which God has ordained, so that we would walk in them.
11 Therefore, remember that you, being formerly Gentiles in the flesh (the ones called “uncircumcision” by those called “circumcision” in the flesh, made with hands),
12 that you were, at that time, without Christ; and were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and were strangers to the covenants of the promise; and had no hope; and were without God in the world.
13 But now, in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off, are made near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He is our peace. He has made of both, one, and has broken the barrier of hostility;
15 having annulled (through His flesh) the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances, in order to make (in Himself) one new man from the two. And so, make peace,
16 so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, and thereby slay hostility.
17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near.
18 For through Him we both have access to the Father, by one Spirit.
19 Now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 having been built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone.
21 In Him, all the building, fitted together, grows into a holy Temple in the Lord.
22 In Him, you also are being built together, to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.
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