rsv Isaiah:3:16-4
rsv@Isaiah:3:16 @ The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;
rsv@Isaiah:3:17 @ the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
rsv@Isaiah:3:18 @ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;
rsv@Isaiah:3:19 @ the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs;
rsv@Isaiah:3:20 @ the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;
rsv@Isaiah:3:21 @ the signet rings and nose rings;
rsv@Isaiah:3:22 @ the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;
rsv@Isaiah:3:23 @ the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
rsv@Isaiah:3:24 @ Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
rsv@Isaiah:3:25 @ Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.
rsv@Isaiah:3:26 @ And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.
rsv@Isaiah:30:1 @ "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
rsv@Isaiah:30:2 @ who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my counsel, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh, and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
rsv@Isaiah:30:3 @ Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
rsv@Isaiah:30:4 @ For though his officials are at Zo'an and his envoys reach Ha'nes,
rsv@Isaiah:30:5 @ every one comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."
rsv@Isaiah:30:6 @ An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
rsv@Isaiah:30:7 @ For Egypt's help is worthless and empty, therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."
rsv@Isaiah:30:8 @ And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.
rsv@Isaiah:30:9 @ For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD;
rsv@Isaiah:30:10 @ who say to the seers, "See not"; and to the prophets, "Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
rsv@Isaiah:30:11 @ leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."
rsv@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them;
rsv@Isaiah:30:13 @ therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;
rsv@Isaiah:30:14 @ and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
rsv@Isaiah:30:15 @ For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." And you would not,
rsv@Isaiah:30:16 @ but you said, "No! We will speed upon horses," therefore you shall speed away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds," therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
rsv@Isaiah:30:17 @ A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
rsv@Isaiah:30:18 @ Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you; therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
rsv@Isaiah:30:19 @ Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.
rsv@Isaiah:30:20 @ And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
rsv@Isaiah:30:21 @ And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
rsv@Isaiah:30:22 @ Then you will defile your silver-covered graven images and your gold-plated molten images. You will scatter them as unclean things; you will say to them, "Begone!"
rsv@Isaiah:30:23 @ And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;
rsv@Isaiah:30:24 @ and the oxen and the asses that till the ground will eat salted provender, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
rsv@Isaiah:30:25 @ And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
rsv@Isaiah:30:26 @ Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
rsv@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
rsv@Isaiah:30:28 @ his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
rsv@Isaiah:30:29 @ You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
rsv@Isaiah:30:30 @ And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.
rsv@Isaiah:30:31 @ The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he smites with his rod.
rsv@Isaiah:30:32 @ And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the LORD lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with them.
rsv@Isaiah:30:33 @ For a burning place has long been prepared; yea, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.
rsv@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!
rsv@Isaiah:31:2 @ And yet he is wise and brings disaster, he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.
rsv@Isaiah:31:3 @ The Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
rsv@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus the LORD said to me, As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called forth against him is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.
rsv@Isaiah:31:5 @ Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will spare and rescue it.
rsv@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, O people of Israel.
rsv@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day every one shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
rsv@Isaiah:31:8 @ "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
rsv@Isaiah:31:9 @ His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
rsv@Isaiah:32:1 @ Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
rsv@Isaiah:32:2 @ Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
rsv@Isaiah:32:3 @ Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will hearken.
rsv@Isaiah:32:4 @ The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
rsv@Isaiah:32:5 @ The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.
rsv@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
rsv@Isaiah:32:7 @ The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
rsv@Isaiah:32:8 @ But he who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things he stands.
rsv@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
rsv@Isaiah:32:10 @ In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.
rsv@Isaiah:32:11 @ Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
rsv@Isaiah:32:12 @ Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
rsv@Isaiah:32:13 @ for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
rsv@Isaiah:32:14 @ For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
rsv@Isaiah:32:15 @ until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
rsv@Isaiah:32:16 @ Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
rsv@Isaiah:32:17 @ And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever.
rsv@Isaiah:32:18 @ My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
rsv@Isaiah:32:19 @ And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
rsv@Isaiah:32:20 @ Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.
rsv@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.
rsv@Isaiah:33:2 @ O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
rsv@Isaiah:33:3 @ At the thunderous noise peoples flee, at the lifting up of thyself nations are scattered;
rsv@Isaiah:33:4 @ and spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, men leap upon it.
rsv@Isaiah:33:5 @ The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness;
rsv@Isaiah:33:6 @ and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
rsv@Isaiah:33:7 @ Behold, the valiant ones cry without; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
rsv@Isaiah:33:8 @ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. Covenants are broken, witnesses are despised, there is no regard for man.
rsv@Isaiah:33:9 @ The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
rsv@Isaiah:33:10 @ "Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.
rsv@Isaiah:33:11 @ You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
rsv@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."
rsv@Isaiah:33:13 @ Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
rsv@Isaiah:33:14 @ The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
rsv@Isaiah:33:15 @ He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,
rsv@Isaiah:33:16 @ he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure.
rsv@Isaiah:33:17 @ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches afar.
rsv@Isaiah:33:18 @ Your mind will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?"
rsv@Isaiah:33:19 @ You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
rsv@Isaiah:33:20 @ Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
rsv@Isaiah:33:21 @ But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor stately ship can pass.
rsv@Isaiah:33:22 @ For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
rsv@Isaiah:33:23 @ Your tackle hangs loose; it cannot hold the mast firm in its place, or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.
rsv@Isaiah:33:24 @ And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.
rsv@Isaiah:34:1 @ Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.
rsv@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.
rsv@Isaiah:34:3 @ Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
rsv@Isaiah:34:4 @ All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
rsv@Isaiah:34:5 @ For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.
rsv@Isaiah:34:6 @ The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
rsv@Isaiah:34:7 @ Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.
rsv@Isaiah:34:8 @ For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
rsv@Isaiah:34:9 @ And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.
rsv@Isaiah:34:10 @ Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
rsv@Isaiah:34:11 @ But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.
rsv@Isaiah:34:12 @ They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.
rsv@Isaiah:34:13 @ Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
rsv@Isaiah:34:14 @ And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place.
rsv@Isaiah:34:15 @ There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate.
rsv@Isaiah:34:16 @ Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
rsv@Isaiah:34:17 @ He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
rsv@Isaiah:35:1 @ The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus
rsv@Isaiah:35:2 @ it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God.
rsv@Isaiah:35:3 @ Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
rsv@Isaiah:35:4 @ Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you."
rsv@Isaiah:35:5 @ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
rsv@Isaiah:35:6 @ then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
rsv@Isaiah:35:7 @ the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
rsv@Isaiah:35:8 @ And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein.
rsv@Isaiah:35:9 @ No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.
rsv@Isaiah:35:10 @ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
rsv@Isaiah:36:1 @ In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki'ah, Sennach'erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
rsv@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the king of Assyria sent the Rab'shakeh from Lachish to King Hezeki'ah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field.
rsv@Isaiah:36:3 @ And there came out to him Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
rsv@Isaiah:36:4 @ And the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Say to Hezeki'ah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this confidence of yours?
rsv@Isaiah:36:5 @ Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?
rsv@Isaiah:36:6 @ Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
rsv@Isaiah:36:7 @ But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"?
rsv@Isaiah:36:8 @ Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.
rsv@Isaiah:36:9 @ How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
rsv@Isaiah:36:10 @ Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"
rsv@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eli'akim, Shebna, and Jo'ah said to the Rab'shakeh, "Pray, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
rsv@Isaiah:36:12 @ But the Rab'shakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"
rsv@Isaiah:36:13 @ Then the Rab'shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
rsv@Isaiah:36:14 @ Thus says the king: `Do not let Hezeki'ah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
rsv@Isaiah:36:15 @ Do not let Hezeki'ah make you rely on the LORD by saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
rsv@Isaiah:36:16 @ Do not listen to Hezeki'ah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;
rsv@Isaiah:36:17 @ until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
rsv@Isaiah:36:18 @ Beware lest Hezeki'ah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
rsv@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharva'im? Have they delivered Sama'ria out of my hand?
rsv@Isaiah:36:20 @ Who among all the gods of these countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
rsv@Isaiah:36:21 @ But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."
rsv@Isaiah:36:22 @ Then Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Jo'ah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezeki'ah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rab'shakeh.
rsv@Isaiah:37:1 @ When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, clothed with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
rsv@Isaiah:37:3 @ They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, `This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
rsv@Isaiah:37:4 @ It may be that the LORD your God heard the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
rsv@Isaiah:37:5 @ When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,
rsv@Isaiah:37:6 @ Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, `Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
rsv@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"
rsv@Isaiah:37:8 @ The Rab'shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.
rsv@Isaiah:37:9 @ Now the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezeki'ah, saying,
rsv@Isaiah:37:10 @ "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: `Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
rsv@Isaiah:37:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?
rsv@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?
rsv@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharva'im, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"
rsv@Isaiah:37:14 @ Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:37:15 @ And Hezeki'ah prayed to the LORD:
rsv@Isaiah:37:16 @ "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
rsv@Isaiah:37:17 @ Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
rsv@Isaiah:37:18 @ Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
rsv@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.
rsv@Isaiah:37:20 @ So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the LORD."
rsv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennach'erib king of Assyria,
rsv@Isaiah:37:22 @ this is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: `She despises you, she scorns you-- the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you-- the daughter of Jerusalem.
rsv@Isaiah:37:23 @ `Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
rsv@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.
rsv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I dug wells and drank waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
rsv@Isaiah:37:26 @ `Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
rsv@Isaiah:37:27 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
rsv@Isaiah:37:28 @ `I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
rsv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'
rsv@Isaiah:37:30 @ "And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
rsv@Isaiah:37:31 @ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
rsv@Isaiah:37:32 @ for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.
rsv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.
rsv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:37:35 @ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
rsv@Isaiah:37:36 @ And the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
rsv@Isaiah:37:37 @ Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nin'eveh.
rsv@Isaiah:37:38 @ And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And E'sar-had'don his son reigned in his stead.
rsv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days Hezeki'ah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order; for you shall die, you shall not recover."
rsv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
rsv@Isaiah:38:3 @ and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in thy sight." And Hezeki'ah wept bitterly.
rsv@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
rsv@Isaiah:38:5 @ "Go and say to Hezeki'ah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
rsv@Isaiah:38:6 @ I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.
rsv@Isaiah:38:7 @ "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:
rsv@Isaiah:38:8 @ Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.
rsv@Isaiah:38:9 @ A writing of Hezeki'ah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
rsv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
rsv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
rsv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;
rsv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.
rsv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
rsv@Isaiah:38:15 @ But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
rsv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
rsv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.
rsv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.
rsv@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
rsv@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezeki'ah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"
rsv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Mer'odach-bal'adan the son of Bal'adan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezeki'ah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
rsv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezeki'ah welcomed them; and he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezeki'ah did not show them.
rsv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezeki'ah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And whence did they come to you?" Hezeki'ah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."
rsv@Isaiah:39:4 @ He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezeki'ah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."
rsv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then Isaiah said to Hezeki'ah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
rsv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And some of your own sons, who are born to you, shall be taken away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
rsv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then said Hezeki'ah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days."
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