1   And in the dayes of ^note Ahaz, the sonne of Iotham, the sonne of Vzziah king of Iudah, Rezin the King of ^note Aram ^note came vp, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah King of Israel, to Ierusalem to fight against it, but he could not ouercome it.

2   And it was tolde the house of ^note Dauid, saying, Aram is ioyned with ^note Ephraim: therefore his heart was ^note moued, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moued by the winde.

3   ¶2; Then sayde the Lorde vnto Isaiah, Goe foorth nowe to meete Ahaz (thou and ^note Sheariashub thy sonne) at the ende of the conduit of the vpper poole, in the path of the fullers fielde,

4   And say vnto him, Take heede, and be still: feare not, neither be faint hearted for the two Christ promised. tailes of these smoking ^note firebrands, for the furious wrath of Rezin and of Aram, and of Remaliahs sonne:

5   Because Aram hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and Ephraim, and Remaliahs sonne, saying,

6   Let vs goe vp against Iudah, and let vs waken them vp, and make a breach therein for vs, and set a King in the mids thereof, euen the sonne of ^note Tabeal.

7   Thus sayth the Lorde God, It shall not stand, neither shall it be.

8   For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within fiue and ^note threescore yeere, Ephraim shalbe destroyed from being a people.

9   And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliahs sonne. If ye beleeue not, surely ye shall not be established.

10   ¶2; And the Lorde spake againe vnto Ahaz, saying,

11   Aske ^note a signe for thee of the Lorde thy God: aske it, either in the depth beneath or in the height aboue.

12   But Ahaz sayd, I wil not aske, neither will I ^note tempt the Lord.

13   Then he sayd, Heare you nowe, O house of Dauid, Is it a small thing for you to grieue ^note men, that ye will also grieue my God?

14   Therefore the Lorde ^note himselfe will giue you a signe. Beholde, the virgine shall conceiue and beare a sonne, and she shal call his name ^note Immanu-el.

15    ^noteButter and hony shal he eate, till he haue knowledge to refuse the euill, and to chuse the good.

16   For afore the ^note childe shall haue knowledge to eschew the euill, and to chuse the good, the land, that thou abhorrest, shalbe forsaken of both her Kings.

17   The Lord shall bring vpon thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers house (the dayes that haue not come from the day that ^note Ephraim departed from Iudah) euen the King of ^note Asshur.

18   And in that day shall the Lorde hisse for the ^note flie that is at the vttermost part of the floods of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the lande of Asshur,

19   And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thorny places, and vpon all bushy ^note places.

20   In that day shall the Lorde shaue with a rasor that is hired, euen by them beyond the Riuer, by the King of Asshur, the head and the heare of the ^note feete, and it shall consume the beard.

21   And in the same day shall a man ^note nourish a yong kowe, and two sheepe.

22   And for the ^note abundance of milke, that they shall giue, hee shall eate butter: for butter and hony shall euery one eate, which is left within the land.

The waters of Shiloah.

23   And at the same day euery place, wherein shalbe a thousand vines, shalbe at a thousand pieces of siluer: so it shalbe for the briers and for the thornes.

24   With arrowes and with ^note bowe shall one come thither: because all the land shall be briers and thornes.

25   But on ^note all the mountaines, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shal not come thither the feare of briers and thornes: but they shalbe for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheepe.

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