Isaiah:37

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* And so it was , when King Hezekiah heard it , that he tore his clothes , covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of the LORD . * Then he sent Eliakim , who was over the household , 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 rebuke and blasphemy ; for the children have come to birth , but there is no strength to bring them forth . * It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh , whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God , and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard . Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left ."' * So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , "Thus you shall say to your master , "Thus 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 . * Surely I will send a spirit upon 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 .""' * Then the Rabshakeh returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah , for he heard that he had departed from Lachish . * And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , "He has come out to make war with you ." So when he heard it , he sent messengers to Hezekiah , saying , * "Thus you shall speak 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 ." * Look ! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them ; and shall you be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed , Gozan and Haran and Rezeph , and the people of Eden who were in Telassar ? * Where is the king of Hamath , the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , Hena , and Ivah ?"' * And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers , and read it ; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD , and spread it before the LORD . * Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD , saying : * "O LORD of hosts , God of Israel , the One who dwells between the cherubim , You are God , You alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth . You have made heaven and earth . * Incline 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 reproach the living God . * Truly , LORD , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands , * and have cast their gods into the fire ; for they were not gods , but the work of men 's hands--wood and stone . Therefore they destroyed them . * Now therefore , O LORD our God , save us from his hand , that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD , You alone ." * Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , "Thus says the LORD God of Israel , "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria , * this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him : "The virgin , the daughter of Zion , Has despised you , laughed you to scorn ; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back ! * "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed ? Against whom have you raised your voice , And lifted up your eyes on high ? Against the Holy One of Israel . * By your servants you have reproached the Lord , And said , "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains , To the limits of Lebanon ; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees ; I will enter its farthest height , To its fruitful forest . * I have dug and drunk water , And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense .' * "Did you not hear long ago How I made it , From ancient times that I formed it ? Now I have brought it to pass , That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins . * Therefore their inhabitants had little power ; They were dismayed and confounded ; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb , As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown . * "But I know your dwelling place , Your going out and your coming in , And your rage against Me . * Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to 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 ."' * "This shall be a sign to you : You shall eat this year such as grows of itself , And the second year what springs from the same ; Also in the third year sow and reap , Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them . * And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward , And bear fruit upward . * For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant , And those who escape from Mount Zion . The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this . * "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria : "He shall not come into this city , Nor shoot an arrow there , Nor come before it with shield , Nor build a siege mound against it . * By the way that he came , By the same shall he return ; And he shall not come into this city ,' Says 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 out , and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand ; and when people arose early in the morning , there were the corpses--all dead . * So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away , returned home , and remained at Nineveh . * Now it came to pass , as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god , that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword ; and they escaped into the land of Ararat . Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place .

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