Isaiah 7:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
In context
14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
16 For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings.