Isaiah 7:7-8

7:7 For this reason the sovereign master, ¹  the Lord, says:

“It will not take place;

it will not happen.

7:8 For Syria’s leader is Damascus,

and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.

Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation. ² 

[7:7]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 14, 19 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[7:8]  ² tn Heb “Ephraim will be too shattered to be a nation”; NIV “to be a people.”