nkjv Isaiah:37:21-38
nkjv@Isaiah:37:21 @ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
nkjv@Isaiah:37:22 @ this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: "The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back!
nkjv@Isaiah:37:23 @ "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:24 @ By your servants you have reproached the Lord, And said, "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter its farthest height, To its fruitful forest.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:25 @ I have dug and drunk water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense.'
nkjv@Isaiah:37:26 @ "Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:27 @ Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:28 @ "But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:29 @ Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came."'
nkjv@Isaiah:37:30 @ "This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:31 @ And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:32 @ For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:33 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: "He shall not come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:34 @ By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,' Says the LORD.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:35 @ "For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'
nkjv@Isaiah:37:36 @ Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses--all dead.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:37 @ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.
nkjv@Isaiah:37:38 @ Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
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