6. ‘Let us go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’ ”
7. This is what the Lord God says:It will not happen; it will not occur.
8. The head of Aram is Damascus,the head of Damascus is Rezin(within 65 yearsEphraim will be too shattered to be a people),
9. the head of Ephraim is Samaria,and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.If you do not stand firm in your faith,then you will not stand at all.
10. Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz:
11. “Ask for a sign from the Lord your God — from the depths of Sheol to the heights of heaven.”
12. But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the Lord.”
13. Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?
14. Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel.
15. By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating butter and honey.
16. For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.
17. The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah — the king of Assyria is coming.”
18. On that day the Lord will whistle to the flythat is at the farthest streams of the Nileand to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19. All of them will come and settlein the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
20. On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River — the king of Assyria — to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.
21. On that daya man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22. and from the abundant milk they givehe will eat butter,for every survivor in the land will eat butter and honey.
23. And on that dayevery place where there were 1,000 vines,worth 1,000 pieces of silver,will become thorns and briers.