He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: The altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.”
Isaiah 7:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ask for yourself a sign (a token or proof) of the Lord your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; ask it either in the depth below or in the height above [let it be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven]. American Standard Version (1901) Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. Common English Bible “Ask a sign from the LORD your God. Make it as deep as the grave or as high as heaven.” Catholic Public Domain Version Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, from the depths below, even to the heights above. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above. |
He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: The altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.”
“And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a wonder,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.’ ”
“And this shall be the sign for you: This year eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”]]
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle, and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.”
Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,
This shall be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I am going to punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words of disaster against you will surely be carried out:
This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”