Isaiah 7
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 7, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, {that} Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. {is confederate...: Heb. resteth on}
Isaiah 7:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; {Shearjashub: that is, The remnant shall return} {highway: or, causeway}
Isaiah 7:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. {neither...: Heb. let not thy heart be tender}
Isaiah 7:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Isaiah 7:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, {even} the son of Tabeal: {vex: or, waken}
Isaiah 7:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah 7:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the head of Syria {is} Damascus, and the head of Damascus {is} Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. {that...: Heb. from a people}
Isaiah 7:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the head of Ephraim {is} Samaria, and the head of Samaria {is} Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. {If...: or, Do ye not believe? it is because ye are not stable}
Isaiah 7:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, {Moreover...: Heb. And the LORD added to speak}
Isaiah 7:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. {ask it...: or, make thy petition deep}
Isaiah 7:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
Isaiah 7:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; {Is it} a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isaiah 7:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. {shall call: or, thou, O virgin, shalt call}
Isaiah 7:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah 7:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Isaiah 7:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; {even} the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the LORD shall hiss for the fly that {is} in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that {is} in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {bushes: or, commendable trees}
Isaiah 7:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, {namely}, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Isaiah 7:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk {that} they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. {the land: Heb. the midst of the land}
Isaiah 7:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall {even} be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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With arrows and with bows shall {men} come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And {on} 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 for the treading of lesser cattle.