What did the prophet Isaiah say about the Blessed Virgin Mary?

Answer 1

A:Isaiah wrote long before the time of Mary and Jesus, and therefore knew nothing of them. However, Matthew's Gospel says that Isaiah 7:14 was a prophecy that Jesus would be born of a virgin and, if true, this would be a statement about the virgin Mary.

Matthew relies on the Septuagint, a flawed early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. Although not actually mentioning Jesus, the Septuagint does say: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." However, what the prophet Isaiah actually wrote in the original Hebrew was, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." The young woman in question did have a child just a few verses later in Isaiah's book, and Isaiah never wrote of a virgin or of the virgin Mary.

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Catholic AnswerThe prophet Isaiah, prophesied the birth of the Messiah, the Immanual prophesy in Isaiah 7:14. The prophecy had immediate meaning to King Ahaz, but it also forecast the later scriptural revelation in St. Matthew 1:20-23 and the Incarnation. As such, the prophet is not saying anything about the Blessed Virgin other than as mother of the Messiah. The protestant contention that the Septuagint was a flawed translation ignores the fact that the Septuagint was The Bible used by Our Blessed Lord, and canonized by the Church as inerrant, not the Hebrew. In it the Isaiah prophecy contains virgin, and this has been the belief of the Church for twenty centuries.

Answer 2

The prophet Isaiah did not specifically mention the Blessed Virgin Mary by name, but he prophesied about the coming of a Messiah who would be born of a virgin. In Isaiah 7:14, he wrote, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." This prophetic announcement is often understood to be a foreshadowing of the birth of Jesus, which was fulfilled through Mary.