Isaiah 7:1-9 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that came up Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem to war against it. He was not able to fight against it.

2 And it was declared to the house of David, saying, Aram has rested itself upon Ephraim. His heart and the heart of his people was shaken, as are shaken the trees of the forest from the face of the wind.

3 And YHWH said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, toward the end of the conduit of the upper pool, toward the road of the Field of the Washer.

4 And say to him: Take heed and be quiet. Do not be afraid and do not be soft because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, with the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah,

5 because indeed Aram has plotted evil against you, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

6 ‘Let us go up against Judah and treat it with contempt and split it apart unto ourselves, and in its midst we will make the son of Tabeal reign as king.’

7 Thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘It will not stand, and it will not come to pass.

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you? do not stand firm in faith, surely you? will not stand firm.’”