And it came to pass in
the days of Achaz the
son of Joathan, the son of
Ozias king of Juda, that
-- --
Rasin king of Syria, and
Phacee the son of Romelia
king of Israel, came up to
Jerusalem, to fight against
it: but they could not prevail
over it.
2 And they told the house
of David, saying: Syria
hath rested upon Ephraim,
and his heart was moved,
and the heart of his people,
as the trees of the woods
are moved with the wind.
3 And the Lord said to
Isaias: Go forth to meet
Achaz, thou, and Jasub thy
son that is left, to the conduit
of the upper pool, in
the way of the Fullers field.
4 And thou shalt say to
him: See thou be quiet:
fear not, and let not thy
heart be afraid of the two
tails of these fire-brands,
smoking with the wrath of
the fury of Rasin king of
Syria, and of the son of
Romelia.
5 Because Syria hath taken
counsel against thee, unto
the evil of Ephraim, and
the son of Romelia, saying:
6 Let us go up to Juda,
and rouse it up, and draw it
away to us, and make the
son of Tabeel king in the
midst thereof.
7 Thus saith the Lord
God: It shall not stand, and
this shall not be.
8 But the head of Syria is
Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Rasin: and
within threescore and five
years, Ephraim shall cease
to be a people:
9 And the head of Ephraim
is Samaria, and the
head of Samaria the son of
Romelia. If you will not
believe, you shall not continue.
10 And the Lord spoke
again to Achaz, saying:
11 Ask thee a sign of the
Lord thy God, either unto
the depth of hell, or unto
the heigth above.
12 And Achaz said: I
will not ask, and I will not
tempt the Lord.
13 And he said: Hear
ye therefore, O house of
David: Is it a small thing
for you, to be grievous to
men, that you are grievous
to my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord
himself shall give you a sign.
Behold a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and
his name shall be called
Emmanuel.
15 He shall eat butter and
honey, that he may know
to refuse the evil, and to
choose the good.
16 For before the child
know to refuse the evil, and
to choose the good, the land
which thou abhorrest shall
be forsaken of the face of
her two kings.
17 The Lord shall bring
upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon the house
-- --
of thy father, days that have
not come since the time of the
separation of Ephraim from
Juda, with the king of the
Assyrians.
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 the
rivers of Egypt, and for the
bee, that is in the land of
Assyria.
19 And they shall come,
and shall all of them rest in
the torrents of the valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks,
and upon all places set with
shrubs, and in all hollow
places.
20 In that day the Lord
shall shave with a rasor that is
hired, with them that are beyond
the river, with the king
of the Assyrians, the head,
and the hairs of the feet, and
the whole beard.
21 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a man
shall nourish a young cow,
and two sheep.
22 And for the abundance
of milk he shall eat butter:
for butter and honey shall
every one eat, that shall be
left in the midst of the land.
23 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that every
place, where there were a
thousand vines, at a thousand
pieces of silver, shall become
thorns and briers.
24 With arrows and with
bows they shall go in thither:
for briers and thorns shall be
in all the land.
25 And as for all the hills,
that shall be raked with a rake,
the fear of thorns and briers
shall not come thither, but they
shall be for the ox to feed on,
and the lesser cattle to tread
upon.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
