1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, there came up Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not take it. 2 And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind. 3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, Go forth to meet Ahaz, you, and your son Jashub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller's field. 4 And you shall say to him, Take care to be quiet, and do not fear, neither let your soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again. 5 And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Remaliah, since they have devised an evil counsel concerning you, saying, 6 We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it; 7 thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not stand, nor come to pass. 8 But the head of Aram is Damascus; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria the son of Remaliah: but if you do not believe, neither will you at all understand. 10 And the Lord again spoke to Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask for yourself a sign of the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height. 12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I test the Lord. 13 And he said, Hear now, house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do you contend against the Lord? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; look, the virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son,⁠a and you shall call his name Immanuel.⁠b 15 Butter and honey he will eat; before he knows or prefers evil, he shall choose the good.⁠c 16 For before the child shall know good or evil,⁠d he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which you are afraid of because of the two kings. 17 But God shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon the house of your father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Judah the king of the Assyrians. 18 And it will happen in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians. 19 And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine, and into every tree. 20 In that day the Lord shall shave with the great and drunken razor which is beyond the river, of the king of Assyria, the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard. 21 And it will happen in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep. 22 And it will happen from their yielding an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey. 23 And it will happen in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns. 24 Men shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns. 25 And every mountain shall be certainly plowed: no fear shall come there: for there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that on which cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.