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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Isaiah 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 young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Behold, 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.’” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19and 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. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22this 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. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24By 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, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27while 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. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28“‘I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Because you have raged against me and your complacency 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.’ |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.” |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. |
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