Isaiah 37
37As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.H4428H2396H8085H7167H899H3680H8242H935H1004H30682And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.H7971H471H1004H7644H5608H2205H3548H3680H8242H3470H5030H1121H5313They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.H559H559H2396H3117H3117H6869H8433H5007H1121H935H4866H3581H32054It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"H3068H430H8085H1697H7262H4428H804H113H7971H2778H2416H430H3198H1697H3068H430H8085H5375H8605H7611H46725When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,H5650H4428H2396H935H34706Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.H3470H559H559H113H559H3068H3372H6440H1697H8085H5288H4428H804H14427Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"H5414H7307H8085H8052H7725H776H5307H2719H7768The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.H7262H7725H4672H4428H804H3898H3841H8085H5265H39239Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,H8085H559H8640H4428H3568H3318H3898H8085H7971H4397H2396H55910"Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.H559H2396H4428H3063H559H430H982H5377H559H3389H5414H3027H4428H80411Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?H8085H4428H804H6213H776H2763H533712Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?H430H1471H5337H1H7843H1470H2771H7530H1121H5729H851513Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"H4428H2574H4428H774H4428H5892H5617H2012H575514Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.H2396H3947H5612H3027H4397H7121H2396H5927H1004H3068H6566H6440H306815And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:H2396H6419H3068H55916"O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.H3068H6635H430H3478H3427H3742H430H4467H776H6213H8064H77617Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.H5186H241H3068H8085H6491H5869H3068H7200H8085H1697H5576H7971H2778H2416H43018Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,H551H3068H4428H804H2717H776H77619and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.H5414H430H784H430H4639H120H3027H6086H68H620So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD."H3068H430H3467H3027H4467H776H3045H306821Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,H3470H1121H531H7971H2396H559H559H3068H430H3478H6419H5576H4428H80422this is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "'She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.H1697H3068H1696H1330H1323H6726H959H3932H1323H3389H5128H7218H31023"'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!H2778H1442H7311H6963H5375H5869H4791H6918H347824By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.H3027H5650H2778H136H559H7230H7393H5927H4791H2022H3411H3844H3772H6967H730H4005H1265H935H4791H7093H3293H376025I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.H6979H8354H4325H3709H6471H2717H2975H469326"'Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,H8085H7350H6213H6924H3117H3335H935H7582H1219H5892H5327H153027while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.H3427H7116H3027H2865H954H6212H7704H3419H1877H2682H1406H7709H6440H705428"'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.H3045H3427H3318H935H726429Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'H7264H7600H5927H241H7760H2397H639H4964H8193H7725H1870H93530"And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.H226H398H8141H5599H8145H8141H7823H7992H8141H2232H7114H5193H3754H398H652931And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.H7604H6413H1004H3063H3254H8328H4295H6213H6529H460532For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.H3389H3318H7611H6413H2022H6726H7068H3068H6635H621333"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.H559H3068H4428H804H935H5892H3384H2671H6923H4043H8210H555034By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.H1870H935H7725H935H5892H5002H306835For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."H1598H5892H3467H5650H173236And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.H4397H3068H3318H5221H4264H804H3967H8084H2568H505H7925H1242H4191H629737Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.H5576H4428H804H5265H3212H7725H3427H521038And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.H7812H1004H5268H430H152H8272H1121H5221H2719H4422H776H780H634H1121H4427
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