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# Isaiah 7

Isaiah 7 is chapter 7 of 66 in the Book of Isaiah. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings his enemies shall not take Jerusalem. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Isaiah 7 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, ascended to Jerusalem to battle against it. But they were not able to defeat it.
2. And they reported to the house of David, saying: “Syria has withdrawn to Ephraim.” And his heart was shaken, with the heart of his people, just as the trees of the forest are moved by the face of the wind.
3. And the Lord said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son, Jashub, who was left behind, to the end of the aqueduct, at the upper pool, on the road to the fuller’s field.
4. And you shall say to him: “See to it that you are silent. Do not be afraid. And have no dread in your heart over the two tails of these firebrands, nearly extinguished, which are the wrath of the fury of Rezin, king of Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.”
5. For Syria has undertaken a plan against you, with the evil of Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
6. “Let us ascend to Judah, and stir it up, and tear it away for ourselves, and appoint the son of Tabeel as a king in its midst.”
7. Thus says the Lord God: This shall not stand, and this shall not be.
8. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years from now, Ephraim will cease to be a people.
9. For the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you will not continue.
10. And the Lord spoke further to Ahaz, saying:
11. Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God, from the depths below, even to the heights above.
12. And Ahaz said, “I will not ask, for I will not tempt the Lord.”
13. And he said: “Then listen, O house of David. Is it such a small thing for you to trouble men, that you must also trouble my God?
14. For this reason, the Lord himself will grant to you a sign. Behold, a virgin will conceive, and she will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
15. He will eat butter and honey, so that he may know to reject evil and to choose good.
16. But even before the boy knows to refuse evil and to choose good, the land that you detest will be abandoned by the face of her two kings.
17. The Lord will lead over you, and over your people, and over the house of your father, such days as have not occurred since the days of the separation of Ephraim from Judah by the king of the Assyrians.
18. And this shall be in that day: the Lord will call for the fly, which is in the most distant parts of the rivers of Egypt, and for the swarm, which is in the land of Assur.
19. And they will arrive, and they all will rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the caverns of the rocks, and in every thicket, and in every opening.
20. In that day, the Lord will shave with a razor the ones hired by those who are across the river, by the king of the Assyrians, from the head to the hairs of the feet, with the entire beard.
21. And this shall be in that day: a man will raise a cow among oxen, and two sheep,
22. and, instead of an abundance of milk, he will eat butter. For all who are left behind in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.
23. And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.
24. They will enter such places with arrows and bows. For briers and thorns will be throughout the entire land.
25. But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle.”

## Isaiah 7 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et factum est in diebus Achaz, filii Joathan, filii Oziæ, regis Juda, ascendit Rasin, rex Syriæ, et Phacee, filius Romeliæ, rex Israël, in Jerusalem, ad præliandum contra eam: et non potuerunt
2. debellare eam. Et nuntiaverunt domui David, dicentes: Requievit Syria super Ephraim. Et commotum est cor ejus, et cor populi ejus, sicut moventur ligna silvarum a facie venti.
3. Et dixit Dominus ad Isaiam: Egredere in occursum Achaz, tu et qui derelictus est Jasub, filius tuus, ad extremum aquæductus piscinæ superioris in via agri Fullonis;
4. et dices ad eum: Vide ut sileas; noli timere, et cor tuum ne formidet a duabus caudis titionum fumigantium istorum, in ira furoris Rasin, regis Syriæ, et filii Romeliæ;
5. eo quod consilium inierit contra te Syria in malum, Ephraim, et filius Romeliæ, dicentes:
6. Ascendamus ad Judam, et suscitemus eum, et avellamus eum ad nos, et ponamus regem in medio ejus filium Tabeel.
7. Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Non stabit, et non erit istud;
8. sed caput Syriæ Damascus, et caput Damasci Rasin; et adhuc sexaginta et quinque anni, et desinet Ephraim esse populus;
9. et caput Ephraim Samaria, et caput Samariæ filius Romeliæ. Si non credideritis, non permanebitis.
10. Et adjecit Dominus loqui ad Achaz, dicens:
11. Pete tibi signum a Domino Deo tuo, in profundum inferni, sive in excelsum supra.
12. Et dixit Achaz: Non petam, et non tentabo Dominum.
13. Et dixit: Audite ergo, domus David. Numquid parum vobis est molestos esse hominibus, quia molesti estis et Deo meo?
14. Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum: ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus Emmanuel.
15. Butyrum et mel comedet, ut sciat reprobare malum, et eligere bonum.
16. Quia antequam sciat puer reprobare malum et eligere bonum, derelinquetur terra quam tu detestaris a facie duorum regum suorum.
17. Adducet Dominus super te, et super populum tuum, et super domum patris tui, dies qui non venerunt a diebus separationis Ephraim a Juda, cum rege Assyriorum.
18. Et erit in die illa: sibilabit Dominus muscæ quæ est in extremo fluminum Ægypti, et api quæ est in terra Assur;
19. et venient, et requiescent omnes in torrentibus vallium, et in cavernis petrarum, et in omnibus frutetis, et in universis foraminibus.
20. In die illa radet Dominus in novacula conducta in his qui trans flumen sunt, in rege Assyriorum, caput et pilos pedum, et barbam universam.
21. Et erit in die illa: nutriet homo vaccam boum, et duas oves,
22. et præ ubertate lactis comedet butyrum; butyrum enim et mel manducabit omnis qui relictus fuerit in medio terræ.
23. Et erit in die illa: omnis locus ubi fuerint mille vites, mille argenteis, in spinas et in vepres erunt.
24. Cum sagittis et arcu ingredientur illuc: vepres enim et spinæ erunt in universa terra.
25. Et omnes montes qui in sarculo sarrientur, non veniet illuc terror spinarum et veprium: et erit in pascua bovis, et in conculcationem pecoris.

## The saints

- “Understand so that you may believe; believe so that you may understand.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 43, c. 400 (On this theme: verse 9)
- “I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.” — St. Anselm, Proslogion, ch. 1, 1078 (On this theme: verse 9)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Apr 5, 2027: Annunciation of the Lord — First Reading, Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
- Mon, Dec 20, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent — First Reading, Isaiah 7:10-14
- Sat, Mar 25, 2028 (computed): Annunciation of the Lord — First Reading, Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
- Tue, Jul 18, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Isaiah 7:1-9

2 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).