Isaiah:37

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* And it happened when King Hezekiah heard it that he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of Jehovah . * 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 children have come to the birth , and there is no strength to bring forth . * It may be that Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh , whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God , and will reprove the words which Jehovah 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 shall you say to your master , Thus says Jehovah , Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me . * Behold , 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 . * So Rabshakeh returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah ; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish . * And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia saying , He has come out to wage war with you . And when he heard it , he sent messengers to Hezekiah , saying , * Thus you shall say 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 . * Behold , 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 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 , Hena , and Ivah ? * And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messenger , and read it . And Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah . * And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah , saying , * O Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel , Who dwells between the cherubim , You are God , You alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth . You have made the heavens and the earth . * Extend Your ear , O Jehovah , and hear ; open Your eyes , O Jehovah , and see ; and hear all the words of Sennacherib , which he has sent to taunt the Living God . * Truly , O Jehovah , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands , * 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 Jehovah our God , save us from his hand , so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Jehovah , You alone . * Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel , Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria , * this is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him : The virgin , the daughter of Zion , has despised you and laughed you to scorn ; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind you . * Whom have you mocked and blasphemed ? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high ? Even against the Holy One of Israel . * By your servants you have taunted Jehovah and have said , By my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains beside Lebanon ; and I will cut down its tall cedars , and its choice fir trees ; and I will go to the extremities of its height , the forest of its Carmel . * I have dug and drunk water , and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of the besieged places . * Have you not heard from distant lands how I have done it ? Even from ancient times I have formed it . Now I have brought it to pass , that your fortified cities should be caused to crash into heaps of ruins . * And their inhabitants had little power ; being dismayed and ashamed . They were as the grass of the field , and as the green herb , as the grass on the housetops , and the standing grain before the field . * But I know where you dwell , and your going out , and your coming in , and your rage against Me . * Because your raging against Me , and your arrogance has come up into 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 from which you came . * And this shall be a sign to you : You shall eat grain this year from what was sown by itself ; and the second year that which springs from the same ; and in the third year you shall sow , and reap , and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them . * And the remnant that 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 out of Mount Zion . The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this . * Therefore thus says Jehovah to 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 mound against it . * By the way that he came , by the same he shall return , and shall not come into this city , says Jehovah . * For I will defend this city to save it , for My own sake and for My servant David ’s sake . * Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria . 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 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 struck him with the sword . And they escaped into the land of Ararat ; and Esar-Haddon his son reigned in his place .

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