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.

18 And it shall be in that. day, that the LORD shall hiss to the ﬂy that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the precipitous valleys, and in the crevices of the rocks, and upon all thorn bushes, and upon all pastures.

14. ‘shall call.’ Heb. has here a form resembling pers.15. ‘as he learneth,’ or, ‘when he knoweth...’; less probably. may know...’16 Lit. ‘forsaken shall be the land, as to which thou fearest, before the face of her two kings ’ (Kay).18 ‘rivers’: perhaps ‘Nile-arms’ or ‘canals’: plur. of word used only of the Nile.19. ‘pastures.’ Some render, ‘bushes.’

20 In that day shall the LORD shave with the razor that is hired, (which is) beyond the river, the king of Assyria; the head, and. the hair of the feet, and the beard also shall it sweep away.

21 And it shall be in that day, that a man shall nourish a heifer of kine, and two sheep;

22 And it sheu be, from the abundance of milk they give, he shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat, that is ’ left in the land.

23 And it shall be, in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall be I for briers and thorns.

24 With arrows and with bows shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

25 And all the hills thatwere hoed with the hoe, thou shalt not come hither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

VIII. 1 And the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great ’ and write upon it with a ’s pen, For Maher-shalal- hash-baz.