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Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field,
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and say to him: 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.
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Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,
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"Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel"--
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thus says the Lord God: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass.
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For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people.
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The head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established." ' "
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Moreover the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
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"Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above."
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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!"
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Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?