The Koine Bible

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up against Jerusalem to make war against it, and they were not able to besiege it.

And it was reported to the house of David, saying, Aram has agreed with Ephraim, and his soul and the soul of his people were shaken, as when a tree in a forest is shaken by a wind.

And the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Jasub your son who was left, to the pool of the upper road of the fuller’s field.

And you shall say to him, Take heed to be quiet, and do not fear, and let your soul not be faint because of these two smoking firebrands of wood, for when the wrath of my anger comes, I will heal again

because the son of Aram and the son of Romelios have taken evil counsel against you, saying

Let us go up into Judea, and after speaking with them we will turn them to us, and we will make the son of Tabeel king over it.

Thus says the Lord of hosts: This counsel shall by no means stand, nor shall it be.

But the head of Aram is Damascus, but yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim will fail from being a people

and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah; and if you do not believe, neither shall you understand

And the Lord added to speak to Ahaz, saying

Ask for yourself a sign from the Lord your God, into the depth or into the height

And Ahaz said, I will by no means ask, nor will I by no means test the Lord.

And he said, Hear now, house of David: is it a small thing for you to weary men, and how do you weary the Lord?

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, the virgin shall conceive in the womb and shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel

Butter and honey he shall eat, before he knows either to choose evil, he shall choose the good.

For before the child knows good or evil, he will refuse evil to choose the good, and the land which you fear because of the two kings will be abandoned

But God will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days such as have not yet come, from the day when Ephraim took away from Judah the king of the Assyrians.

And it shall be in that day that the Lord will whistle for the fly that rules a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of the Assyrians.

And they shall come, all of them, and shall rest in the ravines of the land and in the holes of the rocks and into the caves and into every cleft and in every tree

In that day the Lord will shave with the great and drunken razor, which is beyond the river, the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hair of the feet, and he will remove the beard.

And it shall be in that day, a man shall keep alive a heifer of cattle and two sheep

And it shall be from the abundance of making butter and honey everyone left on the land shall eat

And it shall be in that day: every place where there may be a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels, it shall be for a desolation and for a thorn-bush.

With arrows and bow they will enter there, because all the land will be desert and thornbush.

And every mountain that is ploughed shall be ploughed, and there shall by no means come there fear, for it shall be for pasture of sheep and for trampling of cattle and for trampling of cattle