Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and ﬁve years Vshall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the-head of Samaria is ’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

10 And the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask, going deep or mounting high.

[*](4. ‘Take heed...’ Cheyne renders, ‘Look that thou keep ut sileas, Vulg.)[*](8. ‘that it be not ...’ Lit. ‘from (i.e. from being) a people.’)[*](9. ‘believe, be ’ The same Heb. verb in different voices or aspects: almost ‘if ye will not endure, ye shall not be enduring.’)[*](11. Or, ‘make thy petition deep, or make it high.’ Many (Lowth, Ewald, Delitzsch, Cheyne &c.) incline to read, ‘Deepen it (thy to Sheol, or raise it to the ’ This according to most comm. requires different vowel points from Heb. text.)

12 And Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

13 And he said, Hear ye now, house of David; is its too little for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the is with child, and beareth a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

15 Butter and honey shall he eat, as he leameth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

16 For before the child learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land shall be forsaken, whose two kings thou fearest.

17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy ’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; the king of Assyria.