11. Ask for a sign from the Lord your God. Make it either as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.
12. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, nor will I tempt the Lord.
13. Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David. Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
14. Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: The virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15. Curds and honey he shall eat at the time that he knows enough to refuse the evil and choose the good.
16. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17. The Lord shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father’s house, days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.”
18. In that day the Lord shall whistle 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.
19. They shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes.
20. In that same day the Lord shall shave with a hired razor, from regions beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the legs, and it shall also remove the beard.
21. In that day a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep,