ISAIAH —— CHAPTER 37
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1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard
it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered
with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words
of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach
the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to
Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye
say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that
thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he
shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the
king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard
it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou
be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them
which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,
and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the
king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD,
saying,
16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and
earth.
17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open
thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which
hath sent to reproach the living God.
18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for
they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from
his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art
the LORD, even thou only.
21 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:
22 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.
23 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.
24 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.
25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the
sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26 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.
27 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.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 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.
30 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.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house
of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32 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.
33 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.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall
he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city to save it for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36 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.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 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
Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
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