Eating curds (thick, sour milk) and honey, the diet of the poor, pictures a time of poverty in the land (cf. Isaiah 7:22) following the Assyrian invasion that would follow relief from the Syro-Ephraimitic threat. The child born in Ahaz"s day would eat this type of food when he became personally responsible for his decisions, an age that Isaiah left ambiguous intentionally. However, before this child became responsible, both of Judah"s threatening neighbors, Syria and Ephraim, would cease to exist. Assyria invaded Syria and Israel in733-32 B.C, only a year or two after this prophecy. Damascus fell in732 , and Samaria fell in722 B.C. Jesus Christ also grew up in the Promised Land when it was under the rule of an oppressive foreign power and when life was hard. [source][source][source]