So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.
Isaiah 7:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For before the child shall know [enough] to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land [Canaan] whose two kings you abhor and of whom you are in sickening dread shall be forsaken [both Ephraim and Syria]. [Isa. 7:2.] American Standard Version (1901) For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. Common English Bible Before the boy learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. Catholic Public Domain Version But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For before the child know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings. |
So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.
He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, he will be a stone to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
for before the boy knows how to call “Father”, or “Mother”, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.’
The Lord has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him and stirred up his enemies.
I will banish you from my presence, just as I banished all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.”
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.
Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment; I announce what is certain among the tribes of Israel.
So may I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals? ’
Your children, who you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t yet know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.