Today's Bible Passage is "Isaiah Chapter 7"
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7:1 It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham,
the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and
Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war
against it, but could not prevail against it. 7:2 It was told the house
of David, saying, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled,
and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with
the wind. 7:3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz,
you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper
pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. 7:4 Tell him, ‘Be careful,
and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because
of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin
and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and
the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying, 7:6 “Let’s
go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among
ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel.” 7:7
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall
it happen.” 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken
in pieces, so that it shall not be a people; 7:9 and the head of
Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you
will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
7:10 Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 7:11 “Ask a sign of Yahweh
your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
7:12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.”
7:13 He said, “Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to
try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the
virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15 He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil,
and choose the good. 7:16 For before the child knows to refuse the
evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be
forsaken. 7:17 Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your
father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim
departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 7:18 It will happen in
that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost
part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of
Assyria. 7:19 They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate
valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all
pastures. 7:20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is
hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the
head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
7:21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young
cow, and two sheep; 7:22 and it shall happen, that because of the
abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for
everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the
land. 7:23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were
a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and
thorns. 7:24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all
the land will be briers and thorns. 7:25 All the hills that were
cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers
and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the
treading of sheep.”
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