Isaiah 7:14

Isaiah 7:14 is a verse in the seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah in which the prophet Isaiah, addressing king Ahaz of Judah, promises that God will destroy the king's enemies before a child born to an almah is weaned. The Hebrew word עַלְמָה‎ ‘almāh is said by some to mean a "young woman of childbearing age", but it was translated into Koine Greek in the pre-Christian Septuagint as παρθένος parthenos, meaning virgin, and was subsequently picked up by the gospel of Matthew and used as a messianic prophecy of the Virgin birth of Jesus.^[1] Isaiah 7:14 continues to be one of the most controversial Bible verses.^[2]