8. For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure.” ’ ”
10. And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying,
11. “Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above.”
12. But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test.”
13. Then he said, “Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?
14. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name ‘God with us.’
15. He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good.
16. For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.
17. “Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.”
18. And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria.