The Sign of Immanuel
10 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,
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"Ask
1a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test."
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And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you
2weary my God also?
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Therefore the
3Lord himself will give you a sign.
4Behold, the
5virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name
6Immanuel.
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He shall eat
7curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
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8For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be
9deserted.
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10The LORD will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that
11Ephraim departed from Judah--the king of Assyria."
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In that day the LORD will
12whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and
13in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.
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In that day
14the Lord will
15shave with a razor that is
16hired beyond
17the River--with the king of Assyria--the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.