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Then sent Isaiah the son of Amoz to Hezekiah ,
saying ,
Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel ,
What thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib the king of Assyria have I heard .
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This is the word that the Lord hath spoken over him :
She despiseth thee ,
she laugheth thee to scorn ,
the virgin daughter of Zion ;
behind thee shaketh her head the daughter of Jerusalem .
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Whom hast thou blasphemed ,
and hast thou scorned ?
and against whom hast thou raised thy voice ,
and lifted up thy eyes on high ?
against the Holy One of Israel .
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By thy messengers thou hast blasphemed the Lord and hast said ,
With the multitude of my chariots am I indeed come up to the height of the mountains ,
to the sides of Lebanon ,
and I will cut down its tall cedars ,
the choice of its fir
trees :
and I will enter into the lodgings on its summit ,
the forest of its fruitful soil .
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I have dug and drunk strange waters ,
and I will dry up with the sole of my feet all the streams of besieged places .
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Hadst thou not heard that in distant ages I had prepared this ?
in the times of antiquity when I formed it ?
now have I brought it along ,
and it came to pass ,
to desolate into ruinous heaps fortified cities .
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And thus their inhabitants were short of power ,
they were dismayed and confounded ;
they were as the herbs of the field ,
and as the green grass ;
as the moss on the housetops ,
and as corn blasted before the ear appeareth .
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But thy abiding and thy going out and thy coming in do I know ,
and thy raging against me .
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Because of thy raging against me and thy tumult that is come up into my ears ,
will I put my hook in thy nose ,
and my bridle between thy lips ;
and I will cause thee to turn back on the way by which thou camest .
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And this shall be unto thee the sign ,
Ye shall eat this year what groweth of itself ,
and in the second year what springeth up after the same ;
and in the third year sow and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat their fruit .
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And the remnant of the house of Judah that is escaped shall yet again strike root downward ,
and bear fruit upward .
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant ,
and that which escapeth out of mount Zion :
the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this .
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Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning the king of Assyria ,
He shall not come into this city ,
and he shall not shoot an arrow thereon ,
nor come before it with shield ,
nor cast up against it an embankment .
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On the way by which he came ,
by the same shall he return ,
and into this city shall he not come ,
saith the Lord .
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And I will shield this city ,
to save it ,
for my own sake ,
and for the sake of David my servant .
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And it came to pass ,
on the same night ,
that an angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty and five thousand men :
and when people arose early in the morning ,
behold ,
they were all dead corpses .
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And Sennacherib the king of Assyria then departed ,
and went and returned ,
and dwelt at Nineveh .
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And it came to pass ,
as he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god ,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword :
and they escaped into the land of Ararat .
And Essar
chaddon his son became king in his stead .