top Isaiah ch 7
Greek: Septuagint (LXX)
English: John Barach
Chapter 7
The Crisis of the Two Smoldering Stumps
1 καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ἀχὰζ τοῦ Ἰωαθὰμ τοῦ υἱοῦ Ὀζίου βασιλέως Ἰούδα ἀνέβη Ῥαασσὼν βασιλεὺς Ἀρὰμ καὶ Φακεὲ υἱὸς Ῥομελίου βασιλεὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ πολεμῆσαι αὐτὴν καὶ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν πολιορκῆσαι αὐτήν. 2 καὶ ἀνηγγέλη εἰς τὸν οἶκον Δαυὶδ λέγοντες συνεφώνησεν Ἀρὰμ πρὸς τὸν Ἐφραίμ· καὶ ἐξέστη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὃν τρόπον ὅταν ἐν δρυμῷ ξύλον ὑπὸ πνεύματος σαλευθῇ. 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they were not able to besiege it. 2 And it was reported to the house of David, saying, "Aram has conspired with Ephraim." And his soul and the soul of his people were shaken, just as a tree in a thicket is shaken by the wind.
3 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Ἠσαίαν ἔξελθε εἰς συνάντησιν Ἀχὰζ σὺ καὶ ὁ καταλειφθεὶς Ἰασοὺβ ὁ υἱός σου πρὸς τὴν κολυμβήθραν τῆς ἄνω ὁδοῦ τοῦ ἀγροῦ τοῦ γναφέως 4 καὶ ἐρεῖς αὐτῷ φύλαξαι τοῦ ἡσυχάσαι καὶ μὴ φοβοῦ, μηδὲ ἡ ψυχή σου ἀσθενείτω ἀπὸ τῶν δύο ξύλων τῶν δαλῶν τῶν καπνιζομένων τούτων· ὅταν γὰρ ὀργὴ τοῦ θυμοῦ μου γένηται, πάλιν ἰάσομαι. 5 καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ἀρὰμ καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ῥομελίου, ὅτι ἐβουλεύσαντο βουλὴν πονηρὰν περὶ σου λέγοντες 6 ἀναβησόμεθα εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ συλλαλήσαντες αὐτοῖς ἀποστρέψομεν αὐτοὺς πρὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ βασιλεύσομεν αὐτῆς τὸν υἱὸν Ταβεήλ, 3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Jasoub (Shear-jashub) your son who was left behind, at the pool of the upper road of the Fuller’s Field. 4 And you shall say to him: 'Take care to be quiet, and do not fear; neither let your soul be weak because of these two smoldering stumps of wood; for when the anger of my wrath occurs, I will heal again.' 5 Because the son of Aram and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil counsel against you, saying, 6 'We will go up into Judea, and having conferred with them, we will turn them to us and we will set the son of Tabeel as king over it.'"
7 τάδε λέγει κύριος σαβαὼθ οὐ μὴ ἐμμείνῃ ἡ βουλὴ αὕτη οὐδὲ ἔσται· 8 ἀλλ' ἡ κεφαλὴ Ἀρὰμ Δαμασκός, ἀλλ' ἔτι ἑξήκοντα καὶ πέντε ἐτῶν ἐκλείψει ἡ βασιλεία Ἐφραὶμ ἀπὸ λαοῦ, 9 καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ Ἐφραὶμ Σομορών, καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ Σομορὼν υἱὸς τοῦ Ῥομελίου· καὶ ἐὰν μὴ πιστεύσητε, οὐδὲ μὴ συνῆτε. 7 Thus says the Lord of Hosts: "This counsel shall not stand, nor shall it be. 8 But the head of Aram is Damascus, and yet within sixty-five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall fail from being a people. 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah; and if you do not believe, neither shall you understand."
The Sign of the Virgin and Immanuel
10 καὶ προσέθετο κύριος λαλῆσαι τῷ Ἀχὰζ λέγων 11 αἴτησαι σεαυτῷ σημεῖον παρὰ κυρίου θεοῦ σου εἰς βάθος ἢ εἰς ὕψος. 12 καὶ εἶπεν Ἀχὰζ οὐ μὴ αἰτήσω οὐδ' οὐ μὴ πειράσω κύριον. 13 καὶ εἶπεν ἀκούσατε δή, οἶκος Δαυίδ· μὴ μικρὸν ὑμῖν ἀγῶνα παρέχειν ἀνθρώποις; καὶ πῶς κυρίῳ παρέχετε ἀγῶνα; 14 διὰ τοῦτο δώσει κύριος αὐτὸς ὑμῖν σημεῖον· ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ· 15 βούτυρον καὶ μέλι φάγεται· πρὶν ἢ γνῶναι αὐτὸν ἢ προελέσθαι πονηρὰ ἐκλέξεται τὸ ἀγαθόν· 16 διότι πρὶν ἢ γνῶναι τὸ παιδίον ἀγαθὸν ἢ κακὸν ἀπειθεῖ πονηρίᾳ τοῦ ἐκλέξασθαι τὸ ἀγαθόν, καὶ καταλειφθήσεται ἡ γῆ, ἣν σὺ φοβῇ ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν δύο βασιλέων. 10 And the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height." 12 And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I tempt the Lord." 13 And he said, "Hear then, O house of David: Is it a small struggle (agōna) for you to contend with men? And how do you provide a struggle for the Lord? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin (hē parthenos) shall be with child and shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey he shall eat; before he knows how to prefer evil, he will choose the good. 16 For before the child knows good or evil, he refuses wickedness to choose the good; and the land which you fear because of the two kings shall be abandoned."
The Coming Assyrian Scourge
17 ἀλλὰ ἐπάξει ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν σου καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός σου ἡμέρας, αἳ οὔπω ἥκασιν ἀφ' ἧς ἡμέρας ἀφεῖλεν Ἐφραὶμ ἀπὸ Ἰούδα, τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Ἀσσυρίων. 18 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ συριεῖ κύριος μυίαις, ὃ κυριεύει μέρους ποταμοῦ Αἰγύπτου, καὶ τῇ μελίσσῃ, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν χώρᾳ Ἀσσυρίων, 19 καὶ ἐλεύσονται πάντες καὶ ἀναπαύσονται ἐν ταῖς φάραγξι τῆς χώρας καὶ ἐν ταῖς τρώγλαις τῶν πετρῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ σπήλαια καὶ εἰς πᾶσαν ῥαγάδα καὶ ἐν παντὶ ξύλῳ. 17 "But God will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days such as have not yet come since the day Ephraim withdrew from Judah—the king of the Assyrians." 18 And it shall be in that day that the Lord will whistle for the flies which rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians. 19 And they shall all come and rest in the ravines of the land and in the clefts of the rocks and in the caves and in every cranny and in every tree.
20 ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ξυρήσει κύριος τῷ ξυρῷ τῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ μεμεθυσμένῳ, ὅ ἐστιν πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ βασιλέως Ἀσσυρίων, τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ τὰς τρίχας τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τὸν πώγωνα ἀφελεῖ. 21 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ θρέψει ἄνθρωπος δάμαλιν βοῶν καὶ δύο πρόβατα, 22 καὶ ἔσται ἀπὸ τοῦ πλεῖστον ποιεῖν γάλα βούτυρον καὶ μέλι φάγεται πᾶς ὁ καταλειφθεὶς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a great and drunken razor, which is beyond the river of the king of the Assyrians—the head and the hair of the feet—and He will remove the beard. 21 And it shall be in that day that a man will keep a young cow and two sheep; 22 and it shall be, from the producing of so much milk, everyone left upon the land shall eat butter and honey.
23 καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ πᾶς τόπος, οὗ ἐὰν ὦσιν χίλιαι ἄμπελοι χιλίων σίκλων, εἰς χέρσον ἔσονται καὶ εἰς ἄκανθαν· 24 μετὰ βέλους καὶ τοξεύματος εἰσελεύσονται ἐκεῖ, ὅτι χέρσος καὶ ἄκανθα ἔσται πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. 25 καὶ πᾶν ὄρος ἀροτριώμενον ἀροτριαθήσεται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐκεῖ φόβος· ἔσται γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς χέρσου καὶ ἀκάνθης εἰς βόσκημα προβάτου καὶ εἰς καταπάτημα βοός. 23 And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels, they shall become a wasteland and thorns. 24 Men shall enter there with arrows and bows, for the whole land shall be wasteland and thorns. 25 And every mountain that used to be plowed shall be plowed no more, and no fear shall come there; for from the wasteland and thorns it shall be for the grazing of sheep and the trampling of oxen.