7. Thus says the Lord God: This shall not stand, and this shall not be.
8. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years from now, Ephraim will cease to be a people.
9. For the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you will not continue.
10. And the Lord spoke further to Ahaz, saying:
11. Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, from the depths below, even to the heights above.
12. And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, for I will not tempt the Lord."
13. And he said: "Then listen, O house of David. Is it such a small thing for you to trouble men, that you must also trouble my God?
14. For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
15. He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good.
16. But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings.
17. The Lord will lead over you, and over your people, and over the house of your father, such days as have not occurred since the days of the separation of Ephraim from Judah by the king of the Assyrians.
18. And this shall be in that day: the Lord will call for the fly, which is in the most distant parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the swarm, which is in the land of Assur.