Isaiah 7:13-25

13So Isaiah replied, ‘Now listen, you royal family of David! You cause trouble for people like me. That is bad enough. But now you are trying to cause trouble for God himself.

14So the Lord God himself will show you that he speaks a true message. Look, the young woman who has never had sex will become pregnant. She will give birth to a son. She will call his name Immanuel.

15One day he will know how to choose good things and refuse to do evil things. By that time there will be cream and honey for him to eat.

16Even before that, the two kings that you are now afraid of will have no power. Their land will be empty.

17But the Lord will bring even greater trouble to you! It will be very bad for you, for the royal family, and for your people. Nothing as bad will have happened since Ephraim became separate from Judah. Yes, the Lord will bring the king of Assyria to attack you!’

18At that time, the Lord will call the soldiers of Egypt to come and attack you. And they will come like a crowd of flies! He will call for soldiers to come from Assyria. And they will come like a crowd of bees!

19They will all come in great crowds. They will come into the valleys, the cliffs, the holes in the rocks, the thorn bushes and the pools of water.

20At that time, the Lord will use the king of Assyria to bring trouble and pain. He will come from beyond the Euphrates river. He will be like a sharp knife that cuts off all your hair, the hair from your head, your legs and your beard.

21At that time, a farmer will have only one young cow and two goats.

22They will give him a lot of milk. So he will have butter and cream to eat. Everyone who remains in the land will have milk and honey as their food.

23On that day, in every place where there had been 1,000 valuable vines, there will now be only weeds and thorn bushes.

24In the whole land there will be only weeds and thorn bushes. So men will go to shoot wild animals there with their bows and arrows.

25Nobody will go to the fields in the hills, because only thorn bushes grow there. People will be afraid to go there. They will send their cows there to eat grass. Sheep will run over the fields.