Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 7

Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 7

When Ahaz, Jotham’s son and his grandson,
Uzziah’s, Judah, was the ruler of,
King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah
was Israel’s king, son of Remaliah,
marched on Jerusalem, but he could not,
it conquer nor ‘gainst it, attack, an, mount.
To David’s House, when they hear the report
that an alliance with the Ephraimites
was what the Arameans had devised,
the king and people shook like forest trees
will do when there is blowing, a stiff breeze.

The LORD said to Isaiah, “Go and meet,
with your son, Shear-jashub, Ahaz, the king,
at the end of the conduit, the pool’s,
the upper one, for travelling, it’s used,
the causeway leading to the Fuller’s Field,
and say to him, prophetic words, all these:

“Be quiet, do not fear, and now take heed,
don’t let your nerve fail for that of Rezin,
his blazing anger, with his Aram’eans,
and the Son of Remaliah. Because
Aram with Ephraim and Remaliah,
his Son, have plotted ‘gainst you: ‘Let’s invade
the nation, Judah’s, and, her spirit, break,’
they said; ‘let’s, over, to our side, her, bring,
and Tabeal’s son, we’ll make him as the king.’
Therefore, the LORD God said, ‘It shall not stand
and, never, when these things shall come to pass.
For of Damascus, Aram is the head,
and of Damascus, its head is Rezin.
(Within years, sixty-five, Ephraim will be
destroyed, a nation, it shall cease to be.)
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and its head is his son, Remaliah’s.
Have faith that’s firm, or firm, you’ll fail to stand.’”

Again the LORD spoke these words to Ahaz,
“A sign from God, the Lord, for, you should ask,
one that’s from Sheol’s depths or heaven’s heights.”

“Not to a test,” how Ahaz then replied,
“I’d put the LORD by asking for a sign.”

The prophet then said, “House of David, hear,
men’s patience, you are not content to wear
that out, so you must, of my God, as well,
his patience, wear. Therefore, the LORD himself,
a sign, will give you. Look, a woman, young,
with child, is, and she’ll give birth to a son.
Immanuel is what she shall name him.
He shall eat curds and honey by the time
he’s learned about how he can do these two:
reject the evil and, the good, to choose.
How to refuse what’s evil, choose the good,
before he knows how to achieve these things,
the land of those whom you dread, these two kings,
will be made desolate. The LORD will bring
on you, your people, and your father’s house,
a time, the like of which ne’er has been worse,
since, Ephraim had, from Judah’s state, diverged–
Assyria, its king, on you will turn.”

The LORD will whistle up form distant streams
of Egypt, flies, and from their land, the bees,
Assyrians’, the. They’ll, in steep ravines,
come, settle there, and in the clefts of rocks,
thornbushes, on, in pastures for livestock.

A razor hired on the Euphrates’ banks,
the LORD will use to, head and body, shave,
and from the face, the beard, will also take.
When that day comes, this, what each man will raise:
a single cow and too, a couple sheep,
for milks’ abundance, curds, what he will eat;
left in the land, who is, for everyone,
will, curds and honey, eat. When that day comes,
wherever there were once a thousand vines,
their value was a thousand silver coins,
they will be given to the briars, thorns.
With bow and arrows one will go there for
the thorns and briars cover, the land, o’er;
for fear of thorns and briars, no one goes,
the hills, to, that were once hoed with a hoe.
How they will only be fit as a place
for sheep to trample, cattle, for, to graze.