Isaiah:37

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ylt @Isaiah:37:1 @And it cometh to pass , at the king Hezekiah 's hearing , that he rendeth his garments , and covereth himself with sackcloth , and entereth the house of Jehovah , ylt @Isaiah:37:2 @and sendeth Eliakim , who [is ] over the house , and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the priests , covering themselves with sackcloth , unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet , ylt @Isaiah:37:3 @and they say unto him , 'Thus said Hezekiah , A day of distress , and rebuke , and despising , [is ] this day ; for come have sons unto the birth , and power there is not to bear . ylt @Isaiah:37:4 @'It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God , and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard , and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found .' ylt @Isaiah:37:5 @And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah , ylt @Isaiah:37:6 @and Isaiah saith unto them , 'Thus do ye say unto your lord , Thus said Jehovah , Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard , with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me . ylt @Isaiah:37:7 @Lo , I am giving in him a spirit , and he hath heard a report , and hath turned back unto his land , and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land .' ylt @Isaiah:37:8 @And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah , for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish . ylt @Isaiah:37:9 @And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush , saying , 'He hath come out to fight with thee ;' and he heareth , and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah , saying , ylt @Isaiah:37:10 @'Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting , saying , Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur . ylt @Isaiah:37:11 @Lo , thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered ! ylt @Isaiah:37:12 @Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the sons of Eden , who [are ] in Telassar ? ylt @Isaiah:37:13 @Where [is ] the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , Hena , and Ivvah ?' ylt @Isaiah:37:14 @And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers , and readeth them , and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah , and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah . ylt @Isaiah:37:15 @And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah , saying , ylt @Isaiah:37:16 @'Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel , inhabiting the cherubs , Thou [art ] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth , Thou hast made the heavens and the earth . ylt @Isaiah:37:17 @Incline , O Jehovah , Thine ear , and hear ; open , O Jehovah , Thine eyes and see ; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God . ylt @Isaiah:37:18 @'Truly , O Jehovah , kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land , ylt @Isaiah:37:19 @so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are ] no gods , but work of the hands of man , wood and stone -- and they destroy them . ylt @Isaiah:37:20 @And now , Jehovah our God , save us from his hand , and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art ] Jehovah , Thyself alone .' ylt @Isaiah:37:21 @And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah , saying , 'Thus said Jehovah , God of Israel , That which thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur -- ylt @Isaiah:37:22 @this [is ] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him : Trampled on thee , laughed at thee , Hath the virgin daughter of Zion , Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem . ylt @Isaiah:37:23 @Whom hast thou reproached and reviled ? And against whom lifted up the voice ? Yea , thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel . ylt @Isaiah:37:24 @By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord , and sayest : In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills , The sides of Lebanon , And I cut down the height of its cedars , The choice of its firs , And I enter the high place of its extremity , The forest of its Carmel . ylt @Isaiah:37:25 @I -- I have dug and drunk waters , And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark . ylt @Isaiah:37:26 @Hast thou not heard from afar ? -- it I did , From days of old -- that I formed it . Now , I have brought it in , And it is to make desolate , Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities , ylt @Isaiah:37:27 @And their inhabitants are feeble-handed , They were broken down , and are dried up . They have been the herb of the field , And the greenness of the tender grass , Grass of the roofs , And blasted corn , before it hath risen up . ylt @Isaiah:37:28 @And thy sitting down , and thy going out , And thy coming in , I have known , And thy anger towards Me . ylt @Isaiah:37:29 @Because of thy anger towards Me , And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears , I have put My hook in thy nose , And My bridle in thy lips , And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest . ylt @Isaiah:37:30 @-- And this to thee [is ] the sign , Food of the year [is ] self-sown grain , And in the second year the spontaneous growth , And in the third year , sow ye and reap , And plant vineyards , and eat their fruit . ylt @Isaiah:37:31 @And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath , And it hath made fruit upward . ylt @Isaiah:37:32 @For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant , And an escape from mount Zion , The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this . ylt @Isaiah:37:33 @Therefore , thus said Jehovah , Concerning the king of Asshur : He doth not come in unto this city , Nor doth he shoot there an arrow , Nor doth he come before it [with ] shield , Nor doth he pour out against it a mount . ylt @Isaiah:37:34 @In the way that he came , in it he turneth back , And unto this city he doth not come in , An affirmation of Jehovah , ylt @Isaiah:37:35 @And I have covered over this city , To save it , for Mine own sake , And for the sake of David My servant .' ylt @Isaiah:37:36 @And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out , and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand ; and [men ] rise early in the morning , and lo , all of them [are ] dead corpses . ylt @Isaiah:37:37 @And journey , and go , and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur , and dwelleth in Nineveh . ylt @Isaiah:37:38 @And it cometh to pass , he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god , and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword , and they have escaped to the land of Ararat , and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead .

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