| 1 | In the year that King Uzzi'ah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. |
| 2 | Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. |
| 3 | And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory." |
| 4 | And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. |
| 5 | And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" |
| 6 | Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar. |
| 7 | And he touched my mouth, and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven." |
| 8 | And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." |
| 9 | And he said, "Go, and say to this people: `Hear and hear, but do not understand; see and see, but do not perceive.' |
| 10 | Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed." |
| 11 | Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate, |
| 12 | and the LORD removes men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. |
| 13 | And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump. |
| 1 | In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it. |
| 2 | When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with E'phraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. |
| 3 | And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz, you and She'ar-jash'ub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field, |
| 4 | and say to him, `Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remali'ah. |
| 5 | Because Syria, with E'phraim and the son of Remali'ah, has devised evil against you, saying, |
| 6 | "Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Ta'be-el as king in the midst of it," |
| 7 | thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. |
| 8 | For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years E'phraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.) |
| 9 | And the head of E'phraim is Sama'ria, and the head of Sama'ria is the son of Remali'ah. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'" |
| 10 | Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, |
| 11 | "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven." |
| 12 | But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test." |
| 13 | And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? |
| 14 | Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Imman'u-el. |
| 15 | He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. |
| 16 | For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted. |
| 17 | The 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 E'phraim departed from Judah -- the king of Assyria." |
| 18 | In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly which is at the sources of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria. |
| 19 | And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures. |
| 20 | In that day the Lord will shave with a razor which is hired beyond the River -- with the king of Assyria -- the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also. |
| 21 | In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep; |
| 22 | and because of the abundance of milk which they give, he will eat curds; for every one that is left in the land will eat curds and honey. |
| 23 | In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. |
| 24 | With bow and arrows men will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns; |
| 25 | and as for all the hills which used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread. |
