Yeshayahu (Isaiah) - Chapter 7-8

1And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, marched on Jerusalem to wage war against it, and he could not wage war against it. 2And it was told to the House of David, saying, "Aram has allied itself with Ephraim," and his heart and the heart of his people trembled as the trees of the forest tremble because of the wind. 3And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Now go out toward Ahaz, you and Shear-Yashuv your son, to the edge of the conduit of the upper pool, to the road of the washer's field. 4And you shall say to him, "Feel secure and calm yourself, do not fear, and let your heart not be faint because of these two smoking stubs of firebrands, because of the raging anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 5Since Aram planned harm to you, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6'Let us go up against Judah and provoke it, and annex it to us; and let us crown a king in its midst, one who is good for us,' 7So said the Lord God, 'Neither shall it succeed, nor shall it come to pass. 8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and in another sixty-five years, Ephraim shall be broken, no longer to be a people. 9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah; if you do not believe, it is because you cannot be believed." 10And the Lord continued to speak to Ahaz, saying, 11"Ask for yourself a sign from the Lord, your God: ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above." 12And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test the Lord." 13And he said, "Listen now, O House of David, is it little for you to weary men, that you weary my God as well? 14Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman is with child, and she shall bear a son, and she shall call his name Immanuel. 15Cream and honey he shall eat when he knows to reject bad and choose good. 16For, when the lad does not yet know to reject bad and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread, shall be abandoned." 17The Lord shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house, days which have not come, since the day that Ephraim turned away from Judah, namely, the king of Assyria. 18And it shall be on that day, that the Lord shall whistle to the "fly" that is at the edge of the canals of Egypt, and to the "bee" that is in the land of Assyria. 19And they shall come and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks and in all the thornbushes and in all the shrines. 20On that day, the Lord shall shave with the great razor on the other side of the river, on the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the legs, and also the beard shall be entirely removed. 21And it shall come to pass on that day, a man shall keep alive a heifer of the herd and two sheep. 22And it shall be, because of the plentiful milk produced, that he shall eat cream, for everyone left in the land will eat cream and honey. 23And it shall come to pass, that every place where there were a thousand vines for a thousand pieces of silver, will be for the worms and the thorns. 24With arrows and with a bow shall one come there, for the whole land shall be worms and thorns.

25And all the mountains that will be dug with a spade-the fear of worms and thorns shall not come there; it shall be for the pasture of oxen and for the treading of sheep.

chapter 8

1And the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large scroll, and write on it in common script, to hasten loot, speed the spoils. 2And I will call to testify for Myself trustworthy witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah." 3And I was intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived, and she bore a son, and the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4For, when the lad does not yet know to call, 'Father' and 'mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be carried off before the king of Assyria." 5And the Lord continued to speak to me further, saying: 6"Since this people has rejected the waters of the Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7Therefore, behold the Lord is bringing up on them the mighty and massive waters of the river-the king of Assyria and all his wealth, and it will overflow all its distributaries and go over all its banks. 8And it will penetrate into Judah, overflowing as it passes through, up to the neck it will reach; and the tips of his wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel. 9Join together, O peoples, and be broken, hearken, all you of distant countries. Gird yourselves and be broken, gird yourselves and be broken. 10Take counsel and it will be foiled; speak a word and it will not succeed, for God is with us. 11So has the Lord spoken to me with the overwhelming power of prophecy, and He admonished me from going in the way of this people, saying: 12'You shall not call a band everything that this people calls a band; and you shall not fear what it fears nor attribute strength to it. 13The Lord of Hosts-Him shall you sanctify, and He is your fear, and He gives you strength. 14And it shall be for a portent and a stone upon which to dash oneself and for a rock upon which to stumble for the two houses of Israel, who came to be for a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15And many shall stumble upon them, and fall and be broken, and be trapped and caught. 16Bind this warning, seal the Torah in My disciples.' 17And I will wait for the Lord, Who hides His countenance from the House of Jacob and I will hope for Him. 18Behold, I and the children whom the Lord gave me for signs and for tokens in Israel, from the Lord of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion. 19And when they say to you, "Inquire of the necromancers and those who divine by Jidoa bone, who chirp and who mutter." "Does not this people inquire of its God? For the living, shall we inquire of the dead 20For the Torah and for the warning?" If they will not say the likes of the thing, that it has no light. 21And the one who passes therein shall suffer hardships and hunger, and it shall come to pass, when he is hungry and wroth, that he shall curse his king and his god and face upwards. 22And he shall look to the land, and behold, distress and darkness, weariness of oppression, and to the darkness he is lost. 23For there is no weariness to the one who oppresses her; like the first time, he dealt mildly, [exiling only] the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, and the last one he dealt harshly, the way of the sea, and the other side of the Jordan, the attraction of the nations.