11 And I said, Until when, Lord? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

12 And the LORD removed men far away, and great be the forsaken (tract) in the midst of the land.

13 And still in it (there is) a tenth, and it shall turn again, and be for consuming: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock is in them when they are felled: a holy seed is the stock thereof.

VII. 1 And it came to pass the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uaziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but succeeded not in warring against it.

2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Aram rested

7. ’is taken away,’ or, ‘shall shall pass away.’8 fin. Pronoun ‘me’ not emphatic.9. Or, ‘hear ye (and similarly, see ye) still, continually’: verb of each phrase repeated in infinitive.2. ‘rested upon,’ i.e. perhaps, ‘settled,’ ‘encamped’: or the phrase be used of close alliance.

upon Ephraim. And his heart was shaken, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are shaken with the wind.

3 And the LORD said unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's ﬁeld;

4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for these two tails of smoking firebrands. for the fierce anger of Rezin with Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.

5 Because Aram hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

6 Let us go up against Judah, and terrify it, and let us take it by storm for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even ’ the son of Tabeal:

7 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.