Isaiah:37

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* And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard [it ], that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD . * And he sent Eliakim , who [was ] over the household , and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz . * And they said unto him , Thus saith Hezekiah , This day [is ] a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy , for the sons are come to the breaking [of the water ], and [there is ] no strength in her who is to bring [them ] forth . * It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh , whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to blaspheme the living God and to reprove with the words which the LORD thy God has heard ; therefore lift up [thy ] prayer for the remnant that is still left . * So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said unto them , Thus shall ye say unto your master , Thus saith the LORD , Do not be afraid of the words that thou hast heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me . * Behold , that I am sending [a ] spirit in him , and he shall hear [a ] rumour and 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 is come forth to make war with thee . And when he heard [it ], he sent messengers to Hezekiah , saying , * Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Do not let not thy God , in whom thou dost trust , deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly , and shalt thou be delivered ? * Have the gods of the Gentiles delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed , [as ] Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden which [were ] in Telassar ? * Where [is ] the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim Hena , and Ivah ? * And Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them ; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD and spread them before the LORD . * And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD , saying , * O LORD of the hosts , God of Israel , that dwellest [between ] the cherubim , thou [art ] the God , [even ] thou alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth ; thou hast made the heavens 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 [his messengers ] to blaspheme the living God . * Of a truth , LORD , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries * 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 [art ] the LORD , [even ] thou only . * Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah , saying , Thus saith the LORD God of Israel , Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria : * This [is ] the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him , Has he despised thee ? Has he laughed thee to scorn O virgin daughter of Zion ? Has he shaken his head behind thy back O daughter of Jerusalem ? * Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy ] voice and lifted up thine eyes on high ? [even ] against the Holy One of Israel . * By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord , and hast said , By the multitude of my chariots I shall come up to the height of the mountains to the sides of Lebanon , and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof [and ] the choice fir trees thereof ; and I will enter into the height of his border [and ] the forest of his Carmel . * I have dug and drunk water ; and with the sole of my feet shall I dry up all the rivers of sustenance . * Hast thou not heard long ago [how ] I have done it [and ] of ancient times that I have formed it ? Now I have brought it to pass , that thou should be to lay waste defenced cities [into ] ruinous heaps . * And their inhabitants , of little strength , dismayed and confounded shall be [as ] the grass of the field and [as ] the green shrub [as ] the grass on the housetops , that before it comes to maturity it is dried up . * I have understood thy state , thy going out and thy coming in , and thy rage against me . * Because thy rage against me , and thy tumult , is 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 didst come . * And this [shall be ] a sign unto thee , Ye shall eat [this ] year such as grows of itself ; and the second year that which springs of the same : and in the third year ye shall sow and shall reap and shall plant vineyards and shall 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 from Mount Zion shall come an escape ; the zeal of the LORD of the hosts shall do this . * Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not come into this city , nor shoot an arrow there , nor come before it with shields , 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 the LORD . * For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake and for my servant David 's sake . * Then the angel of the LORD 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 corpses . * 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 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead .:

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