mkjv - Isaiah:36-41

mkjv@Isaiah:36:1 @ And it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the king of Assyria sent the chief of the cupbearers from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Fuller's Field.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:3 @ Then Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, came out to him.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:4 @ And the chief of the cupbearers said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, So says the great king, the king of Assyria, What hope [is] this in which you trust?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:5 @ I say, [Are] only words of the lips wisdom and strength for war? Now, in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:6 @ Lo, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; on which, [if] a man lean on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; [is it] not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:8 @ Now then, please exchange pledges with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able on your part to set riders on them for you.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:9 @ How then will you turn away the face of one commander of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:10 @ Have I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:11 @ And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the chief of the cupbearers, Please speak to your servants [in] Aramaic, for we understand [it]. But do not speak to us [in] Jewish in the ears of the people on the wall.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the chief of the cupbearers said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall? that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then the chief of the cupbearers stood and cried with a loud voice [in] Jewish, and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:14 @ So says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:15 @ Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:16 @ Do not listen to Hezekiah; for so says the king of Assyria, Make a blessing with me by a present, and come out to me; and let everyone eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters [of] his own cistern,

mkjv@Isaiah:36:17 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:18 @ [Let] not Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who among all the gods of these lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

mkjv@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the king's command, saying, Do not answer him.

mkjv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah [with their] clothes torn and told him the words of the chief of the cupbearers.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:1 @ And it happened when king Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:3 @ And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy! For the sons have come to the birth, and no strength to bring forth.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up [your] prayer for the remnant that is left.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Isaiah said to them, So you shall say to your master, So says the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:8 @ So the chief of the cupbearers returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah. For he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:9 @ And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come out to war with you. And he heard and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

mkjv@Isaiah:37:10 @ So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?

mkjv@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

mkjv@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

mkjv@Isaiah:37:14 @ And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier's hand, and read it. And Hezekiah went up [into] the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:15 @ And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,

mkjv@Isaiah:37:16 @ O Jehovah of hosts, God of Israel, who dwells [between] the cherubs, You [are] He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:17 @ Bow down 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:18 @ Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their land,

mkjv@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their gods into the fire, for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:20 @ And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [are] the LORD, You alone.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:21 @ And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Jehovah, God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

mkjv@Isaiah:37:22 @ this [is] the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you [and] laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken [her] head behind you.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:23 @ Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised [your] voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your servants you have mocked Jehovah and have said, by my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, [and] its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its Carmel.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:26 @ Have you not heard from afar? I made it from days of old, even I have formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash [into] heaps, ruins.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:27 @ And their inhabitants [were] short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:28 @ But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because of your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up into 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:30 @ And this [shall be] a sign to you: You shall eat self-sown grain [this] year; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year you shall sow, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:31 @ The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward;

mkjv@Isaiah:37:32 @ for out of Jerusalem shall go out a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion; the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:33 @ So the LORD says this to 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.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:35 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:36 @ Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They [were] all dead corpses.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:37 @ And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

mkjv@Isaiah:37:38 @ And it happened as he was worshiping [in] the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped [into] the land of Ararat; and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, So says the LORD, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,

mkjv@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done the good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

mkjv@Isaiah:38:5 @ Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:7 @ And this [shall be] a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:

mkjv@Isaiah:38:8 @ behold, I will bring again the shadow of the steps, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten steps backward. So the sun returned ten steps, by which steps it had gone down.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

mkjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I place [Him] before me until morning, [that], as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O LORD, I am pressed down; be surety for me.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these [is] the life of my spirit; so You will recover me, and make me to live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For the grave cannot praise You, death can [not] rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I [do] this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ For the LORD [is] for my salvation; and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and rub [it] on the ulcer; and he will live.

mkjv@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Hezekiah said, What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

mkjv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and let them see the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in my house they have seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the Word of Jehovah of hosts.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And of your sons which shall issue from you, which you shall bring out, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

mkjv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:3 @ The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked places shall be made level, and the rough places smooth;

mkjv@Isaiah:40:5 @ and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:6 @ The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the beauty of it [is] as the flower of the field.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows on it; surely the people [is] grass.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall stand forever.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:9 @ Go up for yourself on the high mountain, bringer of good tidings to Zion. Lift up your voice with strength, O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem; lift up, do not be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

mkjv@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong [hand], and His arm shall rule for Him; behold, His reward [is] with Him, and His work before Him.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:11 @ He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry [them] in His bosom, [and] shall gently lead those with young.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out the heavens with a span? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, and what man taught Him counsel?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:14 @ With whom did He take counsel, and [who] instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:15 @ Behold, the nations [are] like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Lebanon [is] not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it enough [for] a burnt offering.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before Him [are] as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then will you compare God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:20 @ He too poor for [that] offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood [from] the foundations of the earth?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:22 @ [It is] He who sits on the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

mkjv@Isaiah:40:23 @ who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:24 @ Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom then will you compare Me, or [am] I equaled? says the Holy One.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who has created these, who brings out their host by number? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power; not one is lacking.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD and my judgment has passed over from my God?

mkjv@Isaiah:40:28 @ Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? [There is] no searching of His understanding.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:29 @ [He] gives power to the weary; and to him with no vigor; He increases strength.

mkjv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even the young shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;

mkjv@Isaiah:40:31 @ but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up [with] wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep silence before Me, O coasts; and peoples shall renew strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together for judgment.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up the righteous one from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? He gave them as the dust [to] his sword, [and] as driven stubble [to] his bow.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:3 @ He pursued them; he passed on in peace. He does not go [by] the way of his feet.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has planned and done [it], calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, Jehovah, [am] the first and the last; I [am] He.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:5 @ The coastlands saw and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, and drew near, and came.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:6 @ They each one helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, Be strong.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:7 @ So the artisan strengthens the refiner, and he smoothing [with] the hammer, him who struck the anvil, saying of soldering, It [is] good. And he made it strong with nails; it will not totter.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:8 @ But you, Israel, [are] My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

mkjv@Isaiah:41:9 @ whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides. And I said to you, You [are] My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:10 @ Do not fear; for I [am] with you; be not dismayed; for I [am] your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight with you shall perish.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:12 @ You shall seek them, and shall not find them; men warring against you shall be as nothing, and as ceasing.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I, Jehovah your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Do not fear; I will help you.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:14 @ Do not fear, worm of Jacob [and] men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:16 @ You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD [and] shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:17 @ The poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none; their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not leave them.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:18 @ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will plant the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set the fir tree in the desert, [and] the pine, and the box tree together;

mkjv@Isaiah:41:20 @ so that they may see, and know, and look on, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:21 @ Bring near your cause, says the LORD; bring out your strong [reasons], says the King of Jacob.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them bring [them] out, and tell us what shall happen; let them reveal the former things, what they [are], that we may look on them and know the final end of them; or declare to us things to come.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:23 @ Reveal the near things after this, so that we may know that you [are] gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may be amazed and see together.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:24 @ Behold, you [are] of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:25 @ I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall come from the sunrise; he will call on My name. And he shall come [on] rulers as [on] mortar, and as the potter tramples clay.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:26 @ Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say, [He is] righteous? Yea, no one declares; yea, no one proclaims; yea, no one hears your words.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:27 @ I first [shall say] to Zion, Behold! Behold them! And I will give to Jerusalem one who bears good news.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:28 @ For I looked, and [there was] no man; and of these no counselor was, that I might ask and they could answer.

mkjv@Isaiah:41:29 @ Behold, they [are] all evil; their works [are] nothing; their images [are] wind and vanity.

mkjv@Isaiah:42:1 @ Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; My Elect, [in whom] My soul delights. I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring out judgment to the nations.