7. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “It will not stand, nor will it occur.
8. For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within 65 years Ephraim will be broken and not be a people.
9. The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you do not trust, you will not stand.”
10. Then Adonai spoke again to Ahaz saying,
11. “Ask for a sign from Adonai your God—from the depths of Sheol or the heights of Heaven.”
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.