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Isaiah 7 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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War against Jerusalem

(2Ki 16:5; 2Ch 28:5–15 )
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 -

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not [fn]conquer it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - When it was reported to the house of David, saying, “The Arameans have taken a stand by Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake from the wind.
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Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the [fn]fuller’s field,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - and say to him, ‘Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stumps of smoldering logs, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:5 - ‘Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:6 - “Let’s go up against Judah and [fn]terrorize it, and take it for ourselves by assault and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:7 - this is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: “It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - “For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people),
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:9 - and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you certainly shall not [fn]last.”’”

The Child Immanuel

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:10 -

Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:11 - “Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; [fn]make it deep as Sheol or high as [fn]heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I put the LORD to the test!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - Then he said, “Listen now, house of David! Is it too trivial a thing for you to [fn]try the patience of men, that you will [fn]try the patience of my God as well?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:14 - “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the [fn]virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will name Him [fn]Immanuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15 - “He will eat [fn]curds and honey [fn]at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

Trials to Come for Judah

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - “The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judahthe days of the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 -

On that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the [fn]remotest part of the canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - They will all come and settle on the steep [fn]ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

On that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates River (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21 -

Now on that day a person may keep alive only a heifer and a pair of sheep;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat [fn]curds, for everyone who is left within the land will eat [fn]curds and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 -

And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - People will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be briars and thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the plow, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for [fn]pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit fight against
I.e., a remnant shall return
I.e., launderer’s
Or demolish
Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD
Or endure
As in most ancient versions; MT make the request deep or high
Lit heights
Lit make men weary
Lit make my God weary
As in LXX; MT young unmarried woman
I.e., God is with us
Possibly butter
Lit with respect to his knowing
Or mouth of the rivers; i.e., the Nile Delta
Or wadis
Possibly butter
Possibly butter
Lit pastureland of
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