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 entered the house of Yahweh ; * and sent Eliakim who was over the household and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests , covered with sackcloth , unto Isaiah the prophet , Son of Amoz ; * and they said unto him , Thus , saith Hezekiah , A day of distress and rebuke and reviling , is this day , For children are come to the birth , and , strength , is there none to bring forth . * It may be , that Yahweh thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his lord , hath sent to reproach a Living God , and will rebuke the words which Yahweh thy God hath heard , Wherefore lift thou up a prayer , for the remnant that remaineth . * So the servants of King Hezekiah came unto Isaiah . * And Isaiah said unto them , Thus , shall ye , surely say , unto your lord , Thus , saith Yahweh Be not thou afraid because of the words which thou hast heard , wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled , Me . * Behold me ! about to let go against him a blast of alarm , and when he heareth the report , then will lie return to his own country , 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 had broken up from Lachish . * And he heard it reported concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , saying , He hath come forth to fight with thee , so when he heard it , he sent messengers unto Hezekiah , saying : * Thus , shall ye surely speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Let not thy God , in whom , thou , art trusting , beguile thee , saying , Jerusalem , shall not be given over , into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Lo ! thou , thyself , hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands in devoting them to destruction , and shalt , thou , be delivered ? * Did the gods of the nations , deliver them , whom my fathers destroyed , Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the sons of Eden , who were in Telassar ? * Where are the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and Ivvah ? * And , when Hezekiah had received the letter at the hand of the messengers , and had read it , then went he up to the house of Yahweh , and Hezekiah spread it out , before Yahweh . * And Hezekiah prayed unto Yahweh saying : * O Yahweh of hosts , God of Israelinhabiting the cherubim , Thou thyself , art GOD , even thou alone , for all the kingdoms of the earth : Thou , didst make the heavens and the earth . * Bow down , O Yahweh , thine earand hear , Open , O Yahweh , thine eyesand see , Yea hear thou all the words of Sennacherib , * who hath sentto reproach a Living God . Of a truth , O Yahweh , the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction all the countries , and their land ; * and have put their gods in the fire , for , no-gods , were they , but the work of the hands of men wood and stone and so they destroyed them . * Now , therefore , O Yahweh our God , save us , out of his hand , That all the kingdoms of the earth , may know , That , thou , art Yahweh , thou alone . * Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah saying , Thus , saith Yahweh , God of Israel , In that thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria , * this , is the word which Yahweh hath spoken concerning him , The virgin daughter of Zion , laugheth thee to scornmocketh thee , The daughter of Jerusalem after thee doth wag her head , * Whom , hast thou reproached and insulted ? And , against whom , hast thou lifted high thy voice ? Yea thou hast proudly raised thine eyes , against the Holy One of Israel . * Through thy servants , thou hast reproached My Lord and hast said , With my multitude of chariots , have I ascended The height of the mountains The recesses of Lebanon , That I may cut down Its tallest cedars Its choicest firs , That I may enter Its highest summit , Its thick garden forest : * I , have digged , and drunk waters , That I may dry up , with the soles of my feet , all the Nile-streams of Egypt . * Hast thou not heard That , long ago , that , is what I appointed , And from days of old , devised ? Now , have I brought it to pass , That thou mightest Serve to lay waste , in desolate ruins , fortified cities ; * And their inhabitants , being powerless , were overthrown and put to shame They became Grass of the field and Young herbage , Grass on housetops , and Seed parched before it came up . * Howbeit , thine abode and thy coming out and thy going in , I know , and thy raging against me . * Because , thy raging against me , and thy contempt , have come up into mine ears , Therefore will I put My ring in thy nose , and My bit in thy lips , And will turn thee back , by the way by which thou earnest . * And , this unto thee , is the sign , Eating this year , the growth of scattered seeds , And in the second year , that which shooteth up of itself , Then in the third year , Sow yeand reap , and Plant ye vineyards , and eat the fruit thereof . * Then shall the escaped of the house of Judah that remain , again , Take root downward , And bear fruit upward . * For , out of Jerusalem , shall come forth a remnant , And that which hath escaped , out of Mount Zion , the jealousy of Yahweh of hosts , will perform , this . * Therefore , thus , saith Yahweh , concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not enter this city , Nor shoot there , an arrow , Nor attack it with shield , Nor cast up against it a mound : * By the way that he Came in , By the Same , shall he return , And into this city , shall he not enter , Declareth Yahweh . * Thus will I throw a covering over this city to save it , For mine own sake , And for the sake of David my servant . * Then went forth the messenger of Yahweh , and smotein the camp of the Assyriansa hundred and eighty-five thousand , and when men arose early in the morning , lo ! they were all , dead bodies ! * So Sennacherib the king of Assyria brake up , and went his way , and returned , and remained in Nineveh . * And it came to pass , as he was bowing down in the house of Nisroch his god , that , Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons , smote him with the sword , howbeit , they , escaped into the land of Ararat , and , Esarhaddon his son , reigned , in his stead .

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