‘This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: ‘This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Luke 2:12 - New International Version (Anglicised) This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And this will be a sign for you [by which you will recognize Him]: you will find [after searching] a Baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. [I Sam. 2:34; II Kings 19:29; Isa. 7:14.] American Standard Version (1901) And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. Common English Bible This is a sign for you: you will find a newborn baby wrapped snugly and lying in a manger.” Catholic Public Domain Version And this will be a sign for you: you will find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger. |
‘This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: ‘This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, ‘What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord on the third day from now?’
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
And God said, ‘I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.’
‘Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.’
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
‘ “And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you – they will both die on the same day.