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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 ."
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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 ,
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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 .
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Whom have you mocked and reviled ?
Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes ?
Against the Holy One of Israel !
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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 .
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I dug wells and drank waters ,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt .
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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 ,
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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 .
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I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in ,
and your raging against me .
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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 .'