In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they were not able to prevail against it.

And it was reported to the house of David that Aram allied with  ¹Ephraim, and his heart and the heart of his people quivered as the trees of the forest quiver in the face of a wind.

Then Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and  ¹Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the Fuller's Field;

And say to him, Be careful and be quiet; do not fear, and do not be fainthearted because of these two smoking firebrand stubs, at the burning anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.

Because Aram and Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have planned evil against you, saying,

Let us go up against Judah and make it sick with terror and break it open for ourselves, and let us set the son of Tabel in its midst as king;

Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
It shall not stand, and it shall not happen;

For the head of Aram is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin;
And in another sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah;
If you do not believe, surely you will not remain standing.

Then Jehovah spoke further to Ahaz, saying,

Ask for a sign from Jehovah your God;  ¹make it as deep as  ²Sheol, or make it as high as high can go.

And Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not try Jehovah.

And he said, Hear now, O house of David, is it too small a thing for you to exhaust the patience of men that you will exhaust the patience of my God as well?

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and she will call his name  ¹Immanuel.

He will eat curds and honey  ¹until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good.

For before this boy knows how to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.

Jehovah will bring upon you and your people and the house of your father such days as have not been since the days when Ephraim turned away from Judah; He will bring upon you the king of Assyria.

And in that day Jehovah will whistle for the  ¹flies which are at the ends of the rivers of Egypt and for the  ¹bees which are in the land of Assyria.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and the clefts of the cliffs and on all the thornbushes and on all watering places.

In that day the Lord will shave with the razor hired from beyond the  ¹River, with the king of Assyria, the  ²head and the  ²hair of the legs; and it will take away the  ²beard as well.

And in that day each man will keep alive only a milk cow and two females of the flock.

And because of the abundance of milk produced, he will eat curds; for everyone left behind in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey.

And in that day every place where there could be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become thorns and thistles.

Men will come there with arrows and bow, for all the land will be thorns and thistles.

And to all the hills that once were hoed with the hoe you will not go for fear of thorns and thistles; but they will become a place for cattle to roam in and for sheep to trample.

Then Jehovah said to me, Take a large tablet and write on it in plain letters, For  ¹Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

And I will take faithful witnesses, Urijah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

And I went to the prophetess, and she  ¹conceived and bore a son. And Jehovah said to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

For before this boy knows how to call, Father, and, Mother, they will carry off the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria before the king of Assyria.

Then Jehovah spoke further to me, saying,

Because these people have rejected
The gently flowing  ¹waters of Shiloah, and exult
In Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Now therefore the Lord is bringing up upon them
The mighty and abundant  ¹waters of the Euphrates,
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will overflow all its channels,
And go over all its banks.

It will sweep through Judah; it will overflow and rise
Until it reaches the neck;
And the spreading out of its wings
Will fill the breadth of Your  ¹land, O Immanuel.

Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered;
Hearken, all you distant places of the earth:
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

Take counsel, yet it will be frustrated;
Speak the word, yet it will not stand;
For God is with us.

For Jehovah spoke to me in this way with great force and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

You shall not call it conspiracy
All that this people calls conspiracy;
And you shall not fear what they fear nor hold it in awe.

You shall sanctify Jehovah of hosts;
He shall be the One to fear and He shall be the One to hold in awe.

Then He will become a  ¹sanctuary, yet a stone to strike against
And a rock of stumbling
To both houses of Israel,
A trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many will stumble  ¹at these,
And will fall and be broken to pieces,
And will be snared and taken captive.

Bind up the  ¹testimony; seal the instruction among my disciples;

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.

See,  ¹I and the  ¹children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who abides on Mount Zion.

When they say to you, Inquire of the necromancers and the familiar spirits, who twitter and mutter; say to them, Should not a people inquire of their God? Should they go to the dead on behalf of the living —

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because in them there is no dawn.

And they go through it hard-pressed and hungry; and when they are hungry, they rage and curse their king and their God. They turn their faces upward,

And they look to the earth, but, there is only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish and being thrust into darkness.

But gloom does not remain in the place where there was anguish: formerly He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali contemptibly, but afterward He treats the way of the  ¹sea, across the Jordan, with glory,  ²Galilee of the nations.

The people who walked in the darkness
Have seen a great  ¹light;
Upon those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death
Light has shined.

You have  ¹multiplied the nation;
You have increased their gladness;
They are glad before You as with the gladness of harvest,
As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

For You break the yoke of their burden
And the staff on their shoulder,
The rod of their oppressor,
As in the day of  ¹Midian.

For all the boots
Of those who in boots trample in the battle-quake
And the garments
Rolled in blood
Are for burning;
They are fuel for fire.

For a  ¹child is born  ²to us,
A  ¹Son is given  ²to us;
And the  ³government
Is upon His shoulder;
And His name will be called
 ⁴Wonderful Counselor,
 ⁵Mighty God,
 ⁵Eternal Father,
 ⁶Prince of Peace.

To the increase of His  ¹government
And to His  ¹peace there is no end,
Upon the  ²throne of David
And over His kingdom,
To establish it
And to uphold it
In justice and righteousness
From now to eternity.
The zeal of Jehovah of hosts
Will accomplish this.

The Lord sends out a word against  ¹Jacob,
And it descends upon  ¹Israel.

And all the people know it,
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Saying in pride and haughtiness of heart,

The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone;
The sycamores have been felled, but we will put cedars in their place.

Then Jehovah exalts the adversaries of Rezin against them
And goads their enemies on.

Aram from the east and the Philistines from the west:
They devour Israel with an open mouth.
By all this His anger is not turned;
His hand is still outstretched.

Yet the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek Jehovah of hosts.

Then Jehovah cuts off from Israel head and tail,
Palm branch and marsh reed in one day.

The elder and the highly regarded — he is the head;
The prophet and the teacher of falsehood — he is the tail.

And those who lead this people are those who mislead them;
And those who are led are those who are confused.

Because of this the Lord will not rejoice in their young men,
And He will not have compassion on their orphans and widows;
For all of them are profane and evildoers,
And every mouth speaks foolishness.
By all this His anger is not turned;
His hand is still outstretched.

For wickedness burns like a fire;
It devours thorn and thistle,
And burns in the forest thickets;
And it rolls up into a column of smoke.

At the overflowing wrath of Jehovah of hosts a land is burned up,
And the people are like fuel for fire;
No one spares even his brother.

One carves on the right side, but is hungry;
And another eats on the left side, but is not satisfied.
Each eats the flesh of his own arm:

Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh;
These together against Judah.
By all this His anger is not turned;
His hand is still outstretched.