Verse 8
Isaiah 7:8
English Revised Version
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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, that it be not a people:
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י רֹ֤אשׁ אֲרָם֙ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וְ/רֹ֥אשׁ דַּמֶּ֖שֶׂק רְצִ֑ין וּ/בְ/ע֗וֹד שִׁשִּׁ֤ים וְ/חָמֵשׁ֙ שָׁנָ֔ה יֵחַ֥ת אֶפְרַ֖יִם מֵ/עָֽם
English Translation
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and in another sixty-five years, Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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Chapter 7 Context
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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Re...
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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was mov...
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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the en...
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and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thine heart be faint, because of th...
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Because Syria hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying,
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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king i...
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thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within threescore and five...
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and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believ...
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And the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
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11
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God (Elohim); ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
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And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will w...
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14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, a...
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15
Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings th...
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The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not...
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18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost...
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And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the roc...
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In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, which is in the parts beyond the River,...
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
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and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for b...
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thou...
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With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
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And all the hills that were digged with the mattock; thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers...
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