nsb - Isaiah:37:1-13

nsb@Isaiah:37:1 @ King Hezekiah heard it and he tore his clothes. He covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of Jehovah.

nsb@Isaiah:37:2 @ Hezekiah sent Eliakim the palace administrator along with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

nsb@Isaiah:37:3 @ They said to him: »Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

nsb@Isaiah:37:4 @ »Perhaps Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh. His master the king of Assyria has sent him to reproach the living God! He will rebuke the words Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that survives.«

nsb@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

nsb@Isaiah:37:6 @ Isaiah said to them: »Say to your master: Jehovah says: »Do not be afraid because of the words you have heard from the servants of the king of Assyria. For they have blasphemed me.

nsb@Isaiah:37:7 @ »»Listen! I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.« «

nsb@Isaiah:37:8 @ Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. He had heard a report that the king had left Lachish.

nsb@Isaiah:37:9 @ He heard this concerning Tirhakah king of Cush: »He has come out to fight against you.« So he sent messengers to Hezekiah and said:

nsb@Isaiah:37:10 @ »Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you. He says to you: »Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.«

nsb@Isaiah:37:11 @ »You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries. He destroyed them completely. And will you be delivered?

nsb@Isaiah:37:12 @ »Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them? And what about the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

nsb@Isaiah:37:13 @ »Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?«