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Then said the Lord unto Isaiah,

Go forth now to meet Ahaz,

thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

And say unto him,

Take heed,

and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,

for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Because Syria,

Ephraim,

and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee,

saying,

Let us go up against Judah,

and vex it,

and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin;

and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Moreover the Lord spake

again unto Ahaz,

saying,

Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God;

ask it either in the depth, - or in the height above.

But Ahaz said,

I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

And he said,

Hear ye now,

O house of David;

Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;

Behold,

a virgin shall conceive,

and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the d-evil, and choose the good.

For before the child shall know to refuse the d-evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

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.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh:

she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

And she shall bring forth a son,

and thou shalt call his name

EMMANUEL:

for he shall save his people from their sins.

Now all this was done,

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,

saying,

Behold,

a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,

and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,

God with us.

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