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When it was reported to the house of David, “Aram has joined forces with Ephraim!” the[a] heart of the people of Ahaz[b] trembled like forest[c] trees in a windstorm.

So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool that proceeds along the highway to Launderer’s Field. Tell him, ‘Be careful, be calm, don’t be afraid, and don’t lose heart because of these two smoldering stumps of torches, that is, because of[d] the fierce anger of Rezin, from Aram, and Remaliah’s son.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read his
  2. Isaiah 7:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read his heart and the heart of his people
  3. Isaiah 7:2 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks forest
  4. Isaiah 7:4 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks because of