For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.

For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord, says: “It will not take place; it will not happen.

But Ahaz responded, “I don’t want to ask; I don’t want to put the Lord to a test.”

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

“But you did not call for me, O Jacob; you did not long for me, O Israel.

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

So listen to this, oppressed one, who is drunk, but not from wine!

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: ‘I burned half of it in the fire – yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

In the past he said to them, “This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.

He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

For the sake of my servant Jacob, Israel, my chosen one, I call you by name and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize me.

I am the Lord, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.

Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.