Isaiah:37:21-38
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah ,
saying ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria :
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This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him ;
The virgin ,
the daughter of Zion ,
hath despised thee ,
and laughed thee to scorn ;
the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee .
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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ?
and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice ,
and lifted up thine eyes on high ?
even against the Holy One of Israel .
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By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord ,
and hast said ,
By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains ,
to the sides of Lebanon ;
and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof ,
and the choice fir trees thereof :
and I will enter into the height of his border ,
and the forest of his Carmel .
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I have digged ,
and drunk water ;
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places .
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Hast thou not heard long ago ,
how I have done it ;
and of ancient times ,
that I have formed it ?
now have I brought it to pass ,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced 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 corn blasted before it be grown up .
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But I know thy abode ,
and thy going out ,
and thy coming in ,
and thy rage against me .
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Because thy rage against me ,
and thy tumult ,
is come up into mine ears ,
therefore will I put my hook in thy nose ,
and my bridle in thy lips ,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest .
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And this shall be a sign unto thee ,
Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself ;
and the second year that which springeth of the same :
and in the third year sow ye ,
and reap ,
and plant vineyards ,
and eat the fruit thereof .
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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 they that escape out of mount Zion :
the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this .
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria ,
He shall not come into this city ,
nor shoot an arrow there ,
nor come before it with shields ,
nor cast a bank against it .
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By the way that he came ,
by the same shall he return ,
and shall not come into this city ,
saith the LORD .
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For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake ,
and for my servant David '
s sake .
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Then the angel of the LORD went forth ,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand :
and when they arose early in the morning ,
behold ,
they were all dead corpses .
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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 his sons smote him with the sword ;
and they escaped into the land of Armenia :
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead .