以賽亞書 第 7 章

And it came to pass in the days of Achaz son of Joatham, son of Ozias king of Judah, that Raasson king of Aram and Phakee son of Romelias king of Israel went up against Jerusalem to make war on it, but they were not able to besiege it.

And it was reported to the house of David, saying: Aram has agreed with Ephraim. And his soul was shaken, and the soul of his people, as when in a forest a tree is shaken by the wind.

And the Lord said to Esaias: Go out to meet Achaz, you and your son Iasoub who was left behind, to the pool of the upper road of the fuller's field.

And you shall say to him: Take care to keep quiet, and do not fear, nor let your soul be faint because of these two smoking firebrands of wood; for when the anger of my wrath comes to pass, I will heal again.

And as for the son of Aram and the son of Romelias, because they have devised an evil counsel concerning you, saying:

We will go up into Judea, and after talking with them we will turn them over to ourselves, and we will make the son of Tabeel king over it.

Thus says the Lord of hosts: This counsel shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass.

But the head of Aram is Damascus; yet in sixty-five years more the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.

And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron is the son of Romelias. And if you do not believe, neither will you understand.

And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying:

Ask for yourself a sign from the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height.

And Achaz said: I will not ask, neither will I put the Lord to the test.

And he said: Hear now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to contend with men? And how is it that you contend with the Lord?

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Emmanouel.

Butter and honey shall he eat; before he knows how to prefer evil, he shall choose the good.

For before the child knows good or evil, he refuses wickedness so as to choose the good; and the land which you fear shall be forsaken from before the two kings.

But God shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house days such as have not yet come, from the day that Ephraim took away the king of the Assyrians from Iouda.

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall whistle for the flies that rule over part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the country of the Assyrians.

And they shall all come and rest in the valleys of the country, and in the holes of the rocks, and in the caves, and in every cleft, and on every tree.

In that day the Lord shall shave with the great and drunken razor — that is, the king of the Assyrians from beyond the river — the head and the hair of the feet; and he shall take away the beard also.

And it shall come to pass in that day that a man shall rear a heifer of the herd and two sheep.

And it shall come to pass that from their producing milk in abundance, everyone who is left in the land shall eat butter and honey.

And it shall come to pass in that day that every place where there are a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels shall become barren land and thorns.

Men shall enter there with arrow and bow, for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.

And every mountain that is ploughed shall be ploughed, and no fear shall come there; for from being barren ground and thorns it shall become pasture for sheep and a trampling place for oxen.