He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, *Who are these with you?* He said, *The children whom God has graciously given your servant.*
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Armies will reign on Mount Tziyon, and in Yerushalayim; and before his elders will be glory.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Then the LORD said to Yeshaiyahu, *Go out now to meet Achaz, you, and She'ar-Yashuv your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
This shall be the sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Yisra'el.
and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Yisra'el.
Hear now, Yehoshua the Kohen Gadol, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.
Thus says the LORD: *I have returned to Tziyon, and will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. Yerushalayim shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'*
and Shim`on blessed them, and said to Miriam, his mother, *Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Yisra'el, and for a sign which is spoken against.