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* And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel : That which thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard . * This is the word that Jehovah has spoken against him : The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee , laugheth thee to scorn ; The daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee . * Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice ? Against the Holy one of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high . * By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord , and hast said , With the multitude of my chariots have I come up To the height of the mountain , to the recesses of Lebanon , And I will cut down its tall cedars , the choice of its cypresses ; And I will enter into its furthest lodging-place , [into ] the forest of its fruitful field . * I have digged , and have drunk strange waters , And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor . * Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it ? And that from ancient days I formed it ? Now have I brought it to pass , that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into ] ruinous heaps . * And their inhabitants were powerless , They were dismayed and put to shame ; They were [as ] the growing grass , and [as ] the green herb , [As ] the grass on the housetops , and grain blighted before it be grown up . * But I know thine abode , and thy going out , and thy coming in , And thy raging against me . * Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears , I will put my ring in thy nose , and my bridle in thy lips , And I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest . * And this [shall be ] the sign unto thee : They shall eat this year such as groweth of itself , And in the second year that which springeth of the same ; But in the third year sow ye and reap , And plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof . * And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward , and bear fruit upward ; * For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant , And out of mount Zion they that escape : The zeal of Jehovah [of hosts ] shall do this . * Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria : He shall not come into this city , Nor shoot an arrow there , Nor come before it with shield , Nor cast a bank against it . * By the way that he came , by the same shall he return , And shall not come into this city , saith Jehovah . * And I will defend this city , to save it , For mine own sake , and for my servant David 's sake . * And it came to pass that night , that an angel of Jehovah went forth , and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand . And when they arose early in the morning , behold , they were all dead bodies . * And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed , and went and returned , and abode at Nineveh . * And it came to pass , as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god , that Adrammelech and Sharezer [his sons ] smote him with the sword ; and they escaped into the land of Ararat . And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead .

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