Chapter VII · Location 7 of 66
Chapter 7 · Open to readFrom Isaias · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)
What does Isaias Chapter 7 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?
Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary
The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.
Chapter breakdown
Isaias 7 places Achaz son of Joathan son of Ozias in Juda's kingship. Rasin of Syria and Phacee son of Romelia of Israel attack Jerusalem without prevailing. Syria resting on Ephraim moves house-of-David and people's hearts like windmoved trees. Lord sends Isaias and Jasub his remaining son to upper-pool conduit by fuller's-field road: be quiet and fearless of the two smoking firebrand tails. Their plan is to rouse and draw Juda and install Tabeel's son; God says it will not stand. Syria's head Damascus and its head Rasin, Ephraim ceased as people within 65years; Ephraim's head Samaria and its head Romelia's son. Unbelief means not continuing.
Lord invites Achaz to ask a sign from hell-depth or height; he refuses, saying he will not tempt Lord. House of David is reproached for grieving men and God. Lord gives sign: virgin conceives son Emmanuel; he eats butter/honey to know refusing evil and choosing good. Before that discernment the abhorred land loses its two kings. Secret Assyrian alliance, false-piety motive, peasant class and name translation are not supplied locally.
Days unlike any since Ephraim-Juda separation come with Assyrian king. Lord hisses for Egyptian river-extremity fly and Assyrian bee; they rest in valley torrents, rock holes, shrubs and hollows. Hired beyond-river Assyrian razor shaves head, feet-hair and beard. A man nourishes young cow and two sheep; milk abundance means butter, and survivors eat butter/honey. Thousand vines worth thousand silver pieces become briers/thorns, entered with bows/arrows. Raked hills avoid thorn fear and serve ox-feeding and lesser cattle trampling. These retain oracle sequence rather than invented garrison movements or guaranteed political rules.
The story inside
Opening: The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Development: Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. Conclusion: The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.
Lessons worth keeping
- 1The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording.
- 2Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct.
- 3The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.
Test your recall
Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?
Source edition and notes
Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.
Lines 79073–79076
7:4. And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.
Lines 79084–79085
7:7. Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.
Lines 79091–79092
7:9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.
Lines 79096–79097
7:11. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.
Lines 79099–79099
7:12. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord.
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7:14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
Lines 79108–79109
7:15. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
Lines 79127–79129
7:20. In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.
