Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
23:007:011 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
23:007:012 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
23:007:013 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
23:007:014 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
23:007:015 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
23:007:016 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
23:007:017 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
23:007:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
23:007:019 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
23:007:020 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
23:007:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
23:007:022 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23:007:023 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
23:007:024 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
23:007:025 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
23:008:001 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
23:008:002 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
23:008:003 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
23:008:004 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
23:008:005 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
23:008:006 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
23:008:007 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
23:008:008 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
23:008:009 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
23:008:010 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
23:008:011 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
23:008:012 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
23:008:013 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
23:008:014 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
23:008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
23:008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
23:008:017 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
23:008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
23:008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
23:008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
23:008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
23:008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
23:009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
23:009:002 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
23:009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
23:009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
23:009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
23:009:008 The Lord sent
