Isaiah:37:21-38

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* And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel , Whereas thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria , * this is the word which Jehovah hath 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 servants thou hast reproached the Lord , and hast said , With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains , 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 height , [into ] the forest of its fruitful field . * I have digged and drunk water ; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor . * Hast thou not heard that long ago I did 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 grass of the field and 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 : there shall be eaten 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 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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