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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah ,
saying , "
Thus says Yahweh ,
the God of Israel , '
Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria ,
I have heard you .
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This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him : "
The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you .
The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you .
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Whom have you defied and blasphemed ?
Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high ?
Against the Holy One of Israel .
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By your messengers you have defied the 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 its tall cedars ,
and its choice fir trees ;
and I will enter into his farthest lodging place ,
the forest of his fruitful field .
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I have dug and drunk strange waters ,
and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt .'
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Haven '
t you heard how I have done it long ago ,
and formed it of ancient times ?
Now have I brought it to pass ,
that it should be yours 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 like the grass of the field ,
and like the green herb ,
like the grass on the housetops ,
and like grain blasted before it has grown up .
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But I know your sitting down ,
and your going out ,
and your coming in ,
and your raging against me .
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Because of your raging against me ,
and because your arrogance has come up into my ears ,
therefore will I put my hook in your nose ,
and my bridle in your lips ,
and I will turn you back by the way by which you came ."
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This shall be the sign to you :
You 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 ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat its fruit .
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The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward ,
and bear fruit upward .
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For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out ,
and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape .
The zeal of Yahweh will perform this .'
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Therefore thus says Yahweh 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 Yahweh .
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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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It happened that night ,
that the angel of Yahweh went out ,
and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians .
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 lived at Nineveh .
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It happened ,
as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god ,
that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword ;
and they escaped into the land of Ararat .
Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place .