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The Prophecy
of Isaias 7
And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of
Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Basin
king of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia king of
Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but
they could not prevail over it.
And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath
rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the
heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved
with the wind.
And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz,
thou and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit
of the upper pool, a in the way of the fuller's held.
And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not,
and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of
these fire brands, smoking with the wrath of the fury
of Rasin king of Syria, end of the son of Romelia.
Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto
the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away
to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst
thereof.
Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this
shall not be.
But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus
is Basin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim
shall cease to be a people:
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria
the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall
not continue.
And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:
Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God either unto the
depth of hell, or unto the height above.
And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt
the Lord.
And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is
it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that
you are grievous to my God also?
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold
a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name
shall be called Emmanuel.
He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and to choose the good.
For before the child know to refuse the evil, and to
choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall
be forsaken of the face of her two kings.
The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people,
and upon the house of thy father, days that have not
come since the time of the separation of Ephraim from
Juda with the king of the Assyrians.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord
shall hiss for the fly, that is in the uttermost parts
of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the
land of Assyria.
And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the
torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow
places.
In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is
hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king
of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet,
and the whole beard.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep.
And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for
butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left
in the midst of the land.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place
where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces
of silver, shall become thorns and briers.
With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither:
for briars and thorns shall be in all the land.
And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a
rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither,
but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser
cattle to tread upon. |