Isaiah 7:1-9

1Now it came about in the days of 1Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that 2Rezin the king of Aram and 3Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but 4could not 5conquer it. 2When it was reported to the 6house of David, saying, “The Arameans 78have camped in 9Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake 10with the wind.

3Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son 11Shear-jashub, at the end of the 12conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the 13fuller’s field, 4and say to him, ‘Take care and be 14calm, have no 15fear and 16do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering 17firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the 18son of Remaliah. 5Because 19Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying, 6“Let us go up against Judah and 20terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in 21its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7thus says the Lord 22God: “23It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass. 8For the head of Aram is 24Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people), 9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. 25If you will not believe, you surely shall not 26last.”’”