Isaiah 7:10-25

Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz: “Ask for a sign  from the LORD your God #— #it can be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.” But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the LORD.” Isaiah  said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?  Therefore, the Lord himself will give you  a sign: See, the virgin will conceive,  have a son, and name him Immanuel.  , By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good,  he will be eating curds  and honey.  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. The LORD will bring on you, your people, and your father’s house such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah:  He will bring the king of Assyria.”  On that day  the LORD will whistle  to flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to bees in the land of Assyria. All of them will come and settle in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,  in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes. On that day the Lord will use a razor  hired from beyond the Euphrates River #— #the king of Assyria   #— #to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards. On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep, and from the abundant milk they give he will eat curds, for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.  And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.  A man will go there with bow and arrows because the whole land will be thorns and briers. You will not go to all the hills that were once tilled with a hoe, for fear of the thorns and briers. Those hills will be places for oxen to graze and for sheep to trample.