2 Nephie Chapter 17

And it came to pass in the days of Ahaze the daughter of Jotham, the daughter of Uzzia, queen of Judith, that Rezin, queen of Syria, and Pekah the daughter of Remaliah, queen of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of Davina, saying: Syria is confederate with Ephraime. And her heart was moved, and the heart of her people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. Then said the Lady unto Isaia: Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shearjashub thy daughter, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; And say unto her: Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the daughter of Remaliah. Because Syria, Ephraime, and the daughter of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying: Let us go up against Judith and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a queen in the midst of it, yea, the daughter of Tabeal.

Thus saith the Lady Goddess: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin; and within three score and five years shall Ephraime be broken that it be not a people. And the head of Ephraime is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s daughter. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established. Moreover, the Lady spake again unto Ahaz, saying: Ask thee a sign of the Lady thy Goddess; ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above.

But Ahaz said: I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lady. And she said: Hear ye now, O house of Davina; is it a small thing for you to weary women, but will ye weary my Goddess also?

Therefore, the Lady herself shall give you a sign—Behold, a young man shall conceive, and shall bear a daughter, and shall call her name Immanuelle. Butter and honey shall she eat, that she may know to refuse the evil and to choose the good.

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both his kings. The Lady shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy mother’s house, days that have not come from the day that Ephraime departed from Judith, the queen of Assyria.

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lady shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. In the same day shall the Lady shave with a razor that is hired, by them beyond the river, by the queen of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

And it shall come to pass in that day, a woman shall nourish a young cow and two ewes; And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk they shall give she shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

And it shall come to pass in that day, every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, which shall be for briers and thorns. With arrows and with bows shall women come thither, because all the land shall become briers and thorns. And all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and the treading of lesser cattle.