<p class="poetry">Before she goes into labor, she gives birth!p> <p class="poetry">Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!p>

<p class="poetry">In the evening there is sudden terror;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">by morning they vanish.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">This is the fate of those who try to plunder us,p> <p class="poetry">the destiny of those who try to loot us!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">now I announce new events.p> <p class="poetry">Before they begin to occur,p> <p class="poetry">I reveal them to you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Before they even call out,<n id="1" /> I will respond;p> <p class="poetry">while they are still speaking, I will hear.p>

Here is why this will be so:<n id="1" /> Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land<n id="2" /> whose two kings you fear will be desolate.<n id="3" />

for before the child knows how to cry out, &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria<n id="1" /> will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I announced them to you beforehand;p> <p class="poetry">before they happened, I predicted them for you,p> <p class="poetry">so you could never say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;My image did these things,p> <p class="poetry">my idol, my cast image, decreed them.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">The withering flower, its beautiful splendor,p> <p class="poetry">situated at the head of a rich valley,p> <p class="poetry">will be like an early fig before harvest &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">as soon as someone notices it,p> <p class="poetry">he grabs it and swallows it.<n id="1" />p>