5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying:
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6 Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, yea, the son of Tabeal.
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7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
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8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin; and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people.
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9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established.
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10 Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying:
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11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above.
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12 But Ahaz said: I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
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13 And he said: Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
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14 Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign--Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel.
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15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and to choose the good.
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16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
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17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, the king of Assyria.
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18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
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20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
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21 And it shall come to pass in that day, a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;
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22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk they shall give he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
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23 And it shall come to pass in that day, every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, which shall be for briers and thorns.
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24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither, because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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25 And all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and the treading of lesser cattle.
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1 Moreover, the word of the Lord said unto me: Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen, concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me: Call his name,
Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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4 For behold, the child shall not have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, before the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
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5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying:
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6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
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7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels,
and go over all his banks.
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8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
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9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries; gird yourselves,
and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
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10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
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11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
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12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
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13 Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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15 And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
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18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.
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19 And when they shall say unto you: Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter--should not a people seek unto their God for the living to hear from the dead?
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20 To the law and to the testimony; and if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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21 And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry; and