2Kings:19:12-34
nkjv@2Kings:19:12 @ 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?
nkjv@2Kings:19:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"'
nkjv@2Kings:19:14 @ 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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:15 @ Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD 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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:16 @ Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
nkjv@2Kings:19:17 @ Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
nkjv@2Kings:19:18 @ 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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:19 @ Now therefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD God, You alone."
nkjv@2Kings:19:20 @ 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, I have heard.'
nkjv@2Kings:19:21 @ 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!
nkjv@2Kings:19:22 @ "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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messengers 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 the extremity of its borders, To its fruitful forest.
nkjv@2Kings:19:24 @ I have dug and drunk strange water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense."
nkjv@2Kings:19:25 @ "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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:26 @ 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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:27 @ "But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me.
nkjv@2Kings:19:28 @ 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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:29 @ "This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
nkjv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
nkjv@2Kings:19:31 @ 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.'
nkjv@2Kings:19:32 @ "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.
nkjv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,' Says the LORD.
nkjv@2Kings:19:34 @ "For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'
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