Isaiah:37

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* And it came to pass , when king Hezekiah heard it , that he tore his clothes , and covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of LORD . * 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 . * And they said to him , Thus says Hezekiah , This day is a day of trouble , and of rebuke , and of blasphemy , for the sons have come to the birth , and there is not strength to bring forth . * It may be LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh , whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God , and will rebuke the words which LORD thy God has heard . Therefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that * So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , Thus shall ye say to your master , Thus says LORD : Be not afraid of the words that thou have heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me . * Behold , I will put a spirit in him , and he shall hear news , and shall return to his own land . And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land . * So Rabshakeh returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah , for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish . * And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , He has come out to fight against thee . And when he heard it , he sent messengers to Hezekiah , saying , * Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Let not thy God in whom thou trust deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , thou have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands , by destroying them utterly . And shall thou be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations delivered them , which my fathers have destroyed , Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar ? * Where is the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and Ivvah ? * And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers , and read it . And Hezekiah went up to the house of LORD , and spread it before LORD . * And Hezekiah prayed to LORD , saying , * O LORD of hosts , the God of Israel , who sit [above ] the cherubim , thou are the God , even thou alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth . Thou have made heaven and earth . * Incline thine ear , O LORD , and hear . Open thine eyes , O LORD , and see , and hear all the words of Sennacherib , who has sent to defy the living God . * Of a truth , LORD , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries , and their land , * and have cast their gods into the fire . For they were no gods , but the work of men 's hands , wood and stone . Therefore they have destroyed them . * Now therefore , O LORD our God , save us from his hand , that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou are LORD , even thou only . * Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus says LORD , the God of Israel , Whereas thou have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria , * this is the word which LORD has spoken concerning him : The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn . The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee . * Whom have thou defied and blasphemed ? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high ? [Even ] against the Holy One of Israel . * By thy servants thou have defied LORD , and have said , With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains , to the innermost parts of Lebanon . And I will cut down the tall cedars of it , and the choice fir * I have dug and drunk water , and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt . * Have thou not heard how I have done it long ago , and formed it of ancient times ? Now I have brought it to pass , that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps . * Therefore their inhabitants were of small power . They were dismayed and confounded . They were as the grass of the field , and as the green herb . As the grass on the housetops , and as a field [of grain ] before it is grown up . * But I know thy sitting down , and thy going out , and thy coming in , and thy raging against me . * Because of thy raging against me , and because thine arrogance has come up into my ears , therefore I will put my hook in thy nose , and my bridle in thy lips , and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou came . * And this shall be the sign to thee . Ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself , and in the second year that which springs of the same , and in the third year sow ye , and reap , and plant vineyards , and eat the fruit of it . * 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 those who shall escape . The zeal of LORD of hosts will perform this . * Therefore thus says LORD concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not come to this city , nor shoot an arrow there . Neither shall he come before it with shield , nor cast up a mound against it . * By the way that he came , by the same he shall return , and he shall not come to this city , says LORD . * For I will defend this city to save it , for my own sake , and for my servant David 's sake . * And the agent of LORD went forth , and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand . And when men arose early in the morning , behold , these were all dead bodies . * So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed , and went and returned , and dwelt 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 Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead .

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