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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They told him, "This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives." |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah, |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard--those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.'" |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, 'Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.' |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them--the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?" |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out 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"LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Give ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Now, LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are the only God." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: "Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, 'With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.' |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: "This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this. |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: "He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city," declares the LORD. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!" |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies! |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king. |
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