and say to him: [a]‘Take heed, and [b]be (A)quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, “Let us go up against Judah and [c]trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— thus says the Lord God:

(B)“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
(C)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be [d]broken,
So that it will not be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
(D)If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:4 Be careful
  2. Isaiah 7:4 be calm
  3. Isaiah 7:6 cause a sickening dread
  4. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

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