World English Bible
Isaiah 7:15
“He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 7
13
He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
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Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
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