Isaiah 7:11-21

11 “Ask the LORD your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test.”
13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[a] a sign: The virgin[b] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[c] will call him Immanuel.[d]
15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,
16 for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”

Assyria, the LORD’s Instrument

18 In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.
20 In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also.
21 In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

Images for Isaiah 7:11-21

Cross References 31

  • 1. S Exodus 7:9; S Deuteronomy 13:2
  • 2. Psalms 139:8
  • 3. Deuteronomy 4:34
  • 4. S ver 2
  • 5. S Genesis 30:15
  • 6. S Isaiah 1:14
  • 7. Psalms 63:1; Psalms 118:28; Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 49:4; Isaiah 61:10
  • 8. S Exodus 3:12; S Luke 2:12
  • 9. S Genesis 24:43
  • 10. S Genesis 3:15; Luke 1:31
  • 11. S Genesis 21:22; Isaiah 8:8,10; Matthew 1:23*
  • 12. S Genesis 18:8
  • 13. ver 22
  • 14. Isaiah 8:4
  • 15. Deuteronomy 1:39
  • 16. S Deuteronomy 13:16; Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 7:15; Hosea 5:9,13; Amos 1:3-5
  • 17. 1 Kings 12:16
  • 18. S ver 20; S 2 Chronicles 28:20
  • 19. ver 20,21; S Isaiah 2:11
  • 20. S Isaiah 5:26
  • 21. Isaiah 13:5
  • 22. S Isaiah 2:19
  • 23. ver 25; Isaiah 17:9; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 55:13
  • 24. S ver 18
  • 25. Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 29:16
  • 26. Isaiah 11:15; Jeremiah 2:18
  • 27. ver 17; 2 Kings 18:16; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 10:5
  • 28. S 2 Samuel 10:4
  • 29. S Deuteronomy 28:49
  • 30. ver 23; Isaiah 2:17
  • 31. Jeremiah 39:10

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. The Hebrew is plural.
  • [b]. Or "young woman"
  • [c]. Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls "son, and he" or "son, and they"
  • [d]. "Immanuel" means "God with us."
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