“‘ And this is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised:

“我耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，

“耶和华必成就他所说的这话。这是耶和华给你的预兆：

“耶和华必成就他所说的这话。这是耶和华给你的预兆：

以赛亚说：“耶和华要给你一个预兆，以证明祂言出必行。

以下就是耶和华给你的兆头，为要证明耶和华必成全他所说过的。

以下是我耶和华给你的征兆来证明我耶和华必成就所说的这事：

「我－耶和華必成就我所說的。我先給你一個兆頭，

「耶和華必成就他所說的這話。這是耶和華給你的預兆：

「耶和華必成就他所說的這話。這是耶和華給你的預兆：

以賽亞說：「耶和華要給你一個預兆，以證明祂言出必行。

以下就是耶和華給你的兆頭，為要證明耶和華必成全他所說過的。

『永恆主必成就他所說過的這件事：他所要給你的兆頭是這樣：

以下是我耶和華給你的徵兆來證明我耶和華必成就所說的這事：

耶和華必成所言、有其徵焉、

我耶和華所言有應、必示爾以徵、

主必驗所言、有一事可以為徵、

“‘ This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:

“‘ “Here is a sign from me. It will show you that I will heal you, just as I promised I would.

“ This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:

This is the sign to you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised:

“ And this shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken:

And this is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing which He has spoken:

And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:

This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised:

And this[ shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Isaiah replied,“ This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said:

This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

prove it to me in this way. I will put a wool fleece on the threshing floor tonight. If the fleece is wet with dew in the morning but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to help me rescue Israel as you promised.”And that is just what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out a whole bowlful of water.Then Gideon said to God,“ Please don’t be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Let me use the fleece for one more test. This time let the fleece remain dry while the ground around it is wet with dew.”

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“ Here is the proof that what I say is true:“ This year you will eat only what grows up by itself, and next year you will eat what springs up from that. But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them; you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.

I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.

Gideon replied,“ If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the Lord speaking to me.Don’t go away until I come back and bring my offering to you.” He answered,“ I will stay here until you return.”Gideon hurried home. He cooked a young goat, and with a basket of flour he baked some bread without yeast. Then, carrying the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, he brought them out and presented them to the angel, who was under the great tree.The angel of God said to him,“ Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock, and pour the broth over it.” And Gideon did as he was told.Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and bread with the tip of the staff in his hand, and fire flamed up from the rock and consumed all he had brought. And the angel of the Lord disappeared.When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he cried out,“ Oh, Sovereign Lord, I’m doomed! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”

Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to Isaiah,“ What sign will the Lord give to prove that he will heal me and that I will go to the Temple of the Lord three days from now?”Isaiah replied,“ This is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised. Would you like the shadow on the sundial to go forward ten steps or backward ten steps?”“ The shadow always moves forward,” Hezekiah replied,“ so that would be easy. Make it go ten steps backward instead.”So Isaiah the prophet asked the Lord to do this, and he caused the shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!Soon after this, Merodach baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah his best wishes and a gift, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick.Hezekiah received the Babylonian envoys and showed them everything in his treasure houses— the silver, the gold, the spices, and the aromatic oils. He also took them to see his armory and showed them everything in his royal treasuries! There was nothing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him,“ What did those men want? Where were they from?” Hezekiah replied,“ They came from the distant land of Babylon.”“ What did they see in your palace?” Isaiah asked.“ They saw everything,” Hezekiah replied.“ I showed them everything I own— all my royal treasuries.”Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“ Listen to this message from the Lord:The time is coming when everything in your palace— all the treasures stored up by your ancestors until now— will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile. They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon’s king.”Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah,“ This message you have given me from the Lord is good.” For the king was thinking,“ At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.”The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.Hezekiah died, and his son Manasseh became the next king.

“ Ask the Lord your God for a sign of confirmation, Ahaz. Make it as difficult as you want— as high as heaven or as deep as the place of the dead.”But the king refused.“ No,” he said,“ I will not test the Lord like that.”Then Isaiah said,“ Listen well, you royal family of David! Isn’t it enough to exhaust human patience? Must you exhaust the patience of my God as well?All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel( which means‘ God is with us’).

And Hezekiah had asked,“ What sign will prove that I will go to the Temple of the Lord?”