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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah ,
saying ,
Thus says LORD ,
the God of Israel ,
Whereas thou have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria ,
I have heard .
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This is the word that LORD has spoken concerning him :
The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn .
The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee .
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Whom have thou defied and blasphemed ?
And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high ? [
Even ]
against the Holy One of Israel .
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By thy messengers thou have defied LORD ,
and have said ,
With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains ,
to the innermost parts of Lebanon .
And I will cut down the tall cedars of it ,
and the choice f
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I have dug and drunk strange waters ,
and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt .
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Have thou not heard how I have done it long ago ,
and formed it of ancient times ?
Now I have brought it to pass ,
that thou should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps .
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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power ,
they were dismayed and confounded .
They were as the grass of the field ,
and as the green herb ,
as the grass on the housetops ,
and as grain blasted before it is grown up .
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But I know thy sitting down ,
and thy going out ,
and thy coming in ,
and thy raging against me .
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Because of thy raging against me ,
and because thine arrogance has come up into my ears ,
therefore I will put my hook in thy nose ,
and my bridle in thy lips ,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou came .
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And this shall be the sign to thee :
Ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself ,
and in the second year that which springs of the same .
And in the third year sow ye ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat the fruit of it .
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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward ,
and bear fruit upward .
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant ,
and out of mount Zion those who shall escape .
The zeal of LORD shall perform this .
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Therefore thus says LORD concerning the king of Assyria ,
He shall not come to this city ,
nor shoot an arrow there ,
neither shall he come before it with shield ,
nor cast up a mound against it .
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By the way that he came ,
by the same shall he return ,
and he shall not come to this city ,
says LORD .
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For I will defend this city to save it ,
for my own sake ,
and for my servant David '
s sake .
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And it came to pass that night ,
that the agent of LORD went forth ,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand .
And when men arose early in the morning ,
behold ,
these were all dead bodies .
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed ,
and went and returned ,
and dwelt at Nineveh .
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And it came to pass ,
as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god ,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword ,
and they escaped into the land of Ararat .
And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead .