2Kings:19:20-37
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah ,
saying , "
Thus says the LORD God of Israel : "
Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria ,
I have heard .'
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This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him : "
The virgin ,
the daughter of Zion ,
Has despised you ,
laughed you to scorn ;
The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back !
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Whom have you reproached and blasphemed ?
Against whom have you raised your voice ,
And lifted up your eyes on high ?
Against the Holy One of Israel .
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By your messengers you have reproached the Lord ,
And said : "
By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains ,
To the limits of Lebanon ;
I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees ;
I will enter the extremity of its borders ,
To its fruitful forest .
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I have dug and drunk strange water ,
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense ."
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Did you not hear long ago How I made it ,
From ancient times that I formed it ?
Now I have brought it to pass ,
That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins .
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Therefore their inhabitants had little power ;
They were dismayed and confounded ;
They were as the grass of the field And the green herb ,
As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown .
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But I know your dwelling place ,
Your going out and your coming in ,
And your rage against Me .
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Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears ,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips ,
And I will turn you back By the way which you came .
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This shall be a sign to you :
You shall eat this year such as grows of itself ,
And in the second year what springs from the same ;
Also in the third year sow and reap ,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them .
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And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward ,
And bear fruit upward .
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For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant ,
And those who escape from Mount Zion .
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this .'
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Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria : "
He shall not come into this city ,
Nor shoot an arrow there ,
Nor come before it with shield ,
Nor build a siege mound against it .
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By the way that he came ,
By the same shall he return ;
And he shall not come into this city ,'
Says the LORD .
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For I will defend this city ,
to save it For My own sake and for My servant David '
s sake ."'
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And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the LORD went out ,
and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand ;
and when people arose early in the morning ,
there were the corpses--all dead .
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away ,
returned home ,
and remained at Nineveh .
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Now it came to pass ,
as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god ,
that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword ;
and they escaped into the land of Ararat .
Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place .