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Isaiah 7

1 Jerusalém besieged 4 Isaiáh comforteth the King. 14 Christ is promised.
1.And in the daies of *Aház, the son of Jothám, the son of Uzziáh King of Judáh, Rezín the King of ^Arám, acame up, and Pekáh the son of Remaliáh King of Israél, to Jerusalém to fight against it, but he could not overcome it.
2.And it was told the house of bDavid, saying, Arám is joined with cEphráim: therefore his heart was dmoved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved by the wind.
3.¶ Then said the Lord unto Isaiáh, Go forth now to meet Aház (thou and eShe-ar-jasháb thy son) at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the fuller’s field,
4.And say unto him, Take heed, and be still: fear not, neither be faint hearted for the two tails of these smoking ffirebrands, for the furious wrath of Rezín and of Arám, and of Remaliáh’s son:
5.Because Arám hath taken wicked counsel against thee, and Ephráim, and Remaliáh’s son, saying,
6.Let us go up against Judáh, and let us waken them up, and make a breech therein for us, and set a King in the middes thereof, even the son of gTabeal.
7.Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it be.
8.For the head of Arám is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezín and with in five and hthreescore year, Ephráim shalbe destroyed from being a people.
9.And the head of Ephráim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye believe not, surely ye shall not be established.
10.¶ And the Lord spake again unto Aház, saying,
11.Ask ia sign for thee of the Lord thy God: ask it, either in the depth or in the height above.
12.But Aház said, I will not ask, neither will I ktempt the Lord.
13.Then he said, Hear you now, ô house of David, Is it a small thing for you to grieve lmen, that ye will also grieve my God?
14.Therefore the Lord mhim self will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and she shall call his name ^Immánu-él.
15.nButter and honey shall he eat, till he have knowledge to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
16.For a fore the ochild shall have knowledge to eschew the evil, and to choose the good, the land, that thou abhorest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.
17.The Lord shall bring upon thee, & upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house (the daies that have not come from the daie that pEphráim departed from Judáh) even the King of qAsshúr.
18.And in that daie shall the Lord hiss for the rfly that is at the uttermost part of the floods of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Asshúr,
19.And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorny places, and upon all bushy splaces.
20.In that daie shall the Lord shave with a raser that is hired, even by them beyond the River, by the King of Asshúr, the head and the hair of the tfeet, and it shall consume the beard.
21.And in the same daie shall a man unourish a young cow, and two sheep.
22.And for the xabundance of milk, that they shall give, he shall eat butter, for butter and honey shall every one eat, which is left within the land.
23.And at the same daie every place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a thousand pieces of silver so it shalbe for the briers and for the thorns.
24.With arrows and with ybow shall one come thether: because all the land shalbe briers and thorns.
25.But on zall the mountains, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thether the fear of briers and thorns: but they shalbe for the sending out of bullocks and for the treading of sheep.

Notes

1-*.
2 Kings 16.5.
1-^.
Or, Syria.
1-a.
To wit, the second time for in the first battle Ahaz was overcome.
2-b.
Meaning, the King’s house.
2-c.
That is, Israel, because that tribe was the greatest, Gen. 48.19.
2-d.
For fear.
3-e.
That is to say, The rest shall return which name Isaiah gave his son, to signify, that the rest of the people should return out of their captivity.
4-f.
Which have but a little smoke and shall quickly be quenched.
6-g.
Which was an Israelite and as seems, enemy to the house of David.
8-h.
Counting from the five and twentieth year of the reign of Uzziah, at what time Amos prophesied this thing, and now Isaiah confirmed that the Israelites should be led into perpetual captivity, which thing came to pass within twenty year after that Isaiah did this message.
11-i.
For the confirmation of this thing that your enemies shall be destroyed and you preserved.
12-k.
Not to believe God’s word without a sign is to tempt God: but to refuse a sign when God offers it for the aid and help of our infirmity, is to rebel against him.
13-l.
You think you have to do with men, when you contemn God’s messengers but it is God, against whom you bend yourselves.
14-^.
Or, God with us, which name can agree to none, but to him, that is both God and man.
14-m.
Forasmuch as you are unworthy, the Lord for his own promise sake will give a sign which shall be that Christ the Saviour of his Church and the effect of all signs and miracles shall be revealed.
15-n.
Meaning, that Christ is not only God, but man also, because he shall be nourished as other men, until the age of discretion.
16-o.
Not meaning Christ, but any child for before a child can come to the years of discretion, the Kings of Samaria and Syria shall be destroyed.
17-p.
Since the time that the twelve tribes rebelled under Roboam.
17-q.
In whom you have put your trust.
18-r.
Meaning, the Egyptians for by reason the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.
19-s.
Signifying, that no place shall be free from them.
20-t.
That is, that which is from the belly downward, meaning, that he would destroy both great and small.
21-u.
He that before had great number of cattle, shall be content with one cow and two sheep.
22-x.
The number of men shall be so small, that a few beasts shall be able to nourish all abundantly.
24-y.
As they that go to seek wild beasts among the bushes.
25-z.
The mountains contrary to their want, shall be tilled by such as shall flee to them for succour.