12. But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask—I wouldn’t test Adonai!”
13. Then he said, “Hear now, house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men? Will you also weary my God?
14. Therefore Adonai Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive. When she is giving birth to a son, she will call his name Immanuel.
15. He will be eating curds and honey by the time he knows to refuse evil and choose good.
16. For before the boy knows to refuse evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.
17. Adonai will bring—on you, on your people and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria!
18. In that day Adonai will whistle for the fly at the source of the Nile of Egypt and for the bee in the land of Assyria.
19. Then they will come, all of them— and will settle in the steep wadis and in the clefts of the cliffs and in all the thorn bushes and in all the watering holes.
20. In that day Adonai will shave— with a razor hired beyond the River— with the king of Assyria— the head and the hair of the legs, and even clip off the beard.
21. In that day it will be that a man will rear a calf and two sheep,
22. and from the abundant milk they give, he will eat curds— for anyone left in the land will eat curds and honey.
23. In that day it will be that every place where there were 1,000 vines worth 1,000 silver shekels will become briers and thorns.