Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
On
hearing
this
report
, King Hezekiah
tore
his clothes
, put
on
sackcloth, and entered
the house of the
LORD.
And
it
cometh
to
pass
, at
king Hezekiah's
hearing,
that
he
rendeth
his garments
, and
covereth
himself
with
sackcloth, and entereth
the house of Jehovah,
And he
sent
Eliakim the palace
administrator
, Shebna the scribe, and the leading
priests, all
wearing
sackcloth, to
the prophet Isaiah
son of Amoz
and sendeth
Eliakim ,
who
`is'
over
the house
, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders
of
the
priests, covering
themselves
with
sackcloth, unto
Isaiah
the prophet ,
son of Amoz ,
to
tell
him, “This
is
what
Hezekiah says:
Today
is
a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace
; for children
have
come to
the point
of
birth, but
there is no
strength
to deliver
them
.
and
they
say
unto
him, `Thus
said
Hezekiah --
A day of distress, and
rebuke, and despising
`is'
this
day
; for come have
sons
unto
the birth, and
power
there is not
to bring
forth
.
Perhaps
the
LORD
your
God will
hear all the words of the Rabshakeh,
whom
his
master
the king of Assyria
has
sent to defy
the living God, and He
will
rebuke
him
for
the words that the
LORD
your
God has
heard .
Therefore
lift
up a
prayer for the remnant that still
survives
. ”
`It
may
be
Jehovah
thy
God doth
hear all the words of the chief
of
the butlers
with
which
the
king of Asshur
his
lord
hath
sent him
to reproach
the living God, and hath
decided
concerning
the words that Jehovah
thy
God hath
heard ,
and
thou
hast
lifted
up prayer for the remnant that is
found
. '
So
the servants of King Hezekiah went
to
Isaiah,
And
the servants of king Hezekiah come
in
unto
Isaiah,
who
replied
, “Tell
your master
that
this
is
what
the
LORD says
: ‘Do
not
be afraid of the words you
have
heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed
Me.
and
Isaiah
saith
to
them
, `Thus
do
ye
say
unto
your lord: Thus
said
Jehovah,
Be not
afraid because
of the words that
thou
hast
heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur
have reviled
Me.
Behold
, I will
put
a
spirit
in him so
that
he will
hear
a rumor
and return
to his own
land, where
I will
cause
him to fall by the sword. ’”
Lo
, I am
giving
in him a
spirit,
and
he hath
heard
a report,
and hath
turned
back
to his land, and
I have
caused
him to fall by the sword in
his
land
. '
When
the
Rabshakeh
heard
that
the king
of Assyria
had
left
Lachish,
he
withdrew
and found
the king fighting against Libnah.
And
the chief
of the
butlers
turneth
back
and findeth
the king of
Asshur
fighting against Libnah ,
for
he
hath
heard
that
he
hath
journeyed
from
Lachish
.
Now
Sennacherib
had
been
warned
about
Tirhakah king of Cush :
“Look
, he has
set
out to fight against
you.”
So
Sennacherib
again
sent
messengers to
Hezekiah, saying,
And
he
heareth
concerning
Tirhakah king of Cush, saying,
`Lo,
he hath
come
out to fight with
thee;'
and
he
turneth
and
sendeth
messengers unto
Hezekiah, saying,
“Give
this
message
to
Hezekiah king of Judah :
‘Do
not
let your
God ,
in whom you
trust
, deceive
you
by
saying that
Jerusalem will
not be
delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria
.
`Thus
do
ye
speak
unto
Hezekiah king of Judah ,
saying,
Let not
thy
God lift
thee
up
in whom thou
art
trusting
, saying ,
Jerusalem is
not given
into the hand of the king of Asshur
.
Surely
you
have
heard what
the kings of Assyria
have done to all the other
countries,
devoting
them
to destruction.
Will
you
then
be
spared?
Lo,
thou
hast
heard that
which
the kings of Asshur
have done to all the lands
--
to devote
them;
and
thou
art
delivered!
Did the gods of the nations destroyed
by
my fathers rescue
those
nations—the
gods
of
Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of
the people
of Eden in Telassar
?
did the gods of the nations deliver
them
whom
my fathers destroyed
--
Gozan, and
Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons
of Eden ,
who
`are'
in Thelassar
?
Where are
the kings
of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? ’”
Where `is'
the king
of Hamath, and
the
king
of
Arpad, and
the
king
of
the
city
of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? '
So
Hezekiah received
the letter
from
the messengers, read
it
, and went
up to the house of the
LORD
and spread
it out
before the
LORD
.
And
Hezekiah taketh
the letters
out
of
the hand
of
the
messengers, and
readeth
them
, and goeth
up to the house of Jehovah,
and Hezekiah
spreadeth
it before Jehovah
.
And Hezekiah prayed
before the
LORD:
“
O LORD
, God of Israel, enthroned
between
the cherubim
, You
alone
are
God over
all the kingdoms of the earth .
You
made the heavens and the earth.
And Hezekiah prayeth
before Jehovah,
and
saith,
`
O Jehovah
, God of Israel, inhabiting
the cherubs
, Thou
`art'
God Himself
--
Thyself
alone
--
to
all the kingdoms of the earth :
Thou
hast
made the heavens and the earth.
Incline Your
ear
, O LORD
, and hear; open Your
eyes
, O LORD
, and see .
Listen
to
the words that
Sennacherib has
sent to defy
the living God.
Incline, O Jehovah
, Thine
ear,
and hear; open, O Jehovah
, Thine
eyes,
and see ;
and
hear
Thou
the words of
Sennacherib with
which
he
hath
sent him
to reproach
the living God.
Truly, O LORD
, the
kings of Assyria
have laid waste these
nations and their lands.
`
Truly, O Jehovah
, kings of Asshur
have laid waste the
nations ,
and their land,
They
have cast
their gods into the
fire and
destroyed
them
, for they were
not
gods, but only
wood
and
stone—the
work of human
hands.
and
have put
their gods into fire, for they `are'
no
gods, but work of the
hands of
man,
wood
and
stone,
and
destroy
them
.
And now, O LORD
our God, please
save us from
his hand, so
that
all the
kingdoms of the earth may
know
that You
alone,
O
LORD,
are
God. ”
And now, O Jehovah
our God, save us ,
we
pray
Thee,
out
of
his hand, and
know
do
all kingdoms of the earth that Thou
`art'
Jehovah
God --
Thyself
alone
. '
Then
Isaiah son of Amoz sent
a
message
to
Hezekiah :
“This
is
what
the
LORD
, the
God of Israel, says:
I
have
heard
your
prayer
concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
And
Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth
unto
Hezekiah, saying,
`Thus
said
Jehovah,
God of Israel, That
which
thou
hast
prayed
unto
Me
concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur
I
have
heard:
This is the word that the
LORD
has
spoken
against
him: ‘
The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises
you
and
mocks
you;
the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes
her
head
behind
you.
this `
is '
the word that Jehovah
spake
concerning
him: `Trampled
on
thee
--
laughed
at
thee,
Hath
the virgin daughter of Zion Behind
thee
shaken
the head
--
Hath
the
daughter of Jerusalem ?
Whom have
you
taunted
and blasphemed
? Against whom have
you
raised
your
voice
and
lifted your
eyes
in
pride
? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Whom hast
thou
reproached
and reviled
? And
against whom lifted up
a
voice
? Yea,
thou
dost
lift
up
on
high
thine
eyes
--
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Through
your
servants
you
have
taunted
the Lord, and you
have
said
: “With
my many
chariots I have ascended
to the
heights
of the
mountains ,
to
the remote
peaks
of Lebanon .
I have
cut down its tallest
cedars, the finest
of its cypresses.
I have
reached
its farthest
outposts
, the densest
of its forests
.
By
the hand
of
thy
messengers
Thou
hast
reproached
the
Lord, and sayest
: In
the
multitude
of
my chariots I have come
up
to a
high
place
of mountains --
The sides
of Lebanon ,
And
I cut down the
height
of
its cedars, The choice
of its firs,
And
I enter
the
lodging
of
its extremity
, The forest
of its Carmel
.
I have dug
wells
and drunk foreign
waters .
With the soles
of my feet
I
have
dried
up
all the
streams
of Egypt
. ”
I have digged,
and drunk strange
waters ,
And
I
dry
up
with the sole
of my steps
All floods
of a
bulwark
.
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
should
crush
fortified
cities into
piles
of
rubble.
Hast
thou
not heard from
afar,
it I
made,
From
days of old that
I formed
it ?
Now I have brought it in
, And
it
becometh
a
desolation,
Ruinous
heaps
`are'
fenced
cities ,
Therefore
their inhabitants, devoid
of
power
, are
dismayed
and ashamed.
They
are like
plants
in
the field, tender green
shoots
, grass on
the rooftops
, scorched
before it is
grown.
And
their inhabitants `are'
feeble-handed
, They
were
broken
down
, and are dried
up,
They
have
been
the herb
of
the
field, And
the
greenness
of
the
tender grass
, Grass of
the roofs
, And
blasted
corn
--
before it hath
risen
up!
But
I
know
your
sitting down, your
going out and coming in, and your
raging
against
Me .
And
thy
sitting down, and
thy
going out ,
And thy
coming in, I
have
known,
And thine
anger
towards
Me ;
Because your
rage
and
arrogance
against
Me have
reached
My
ears, I will
put My hook in your
nose and My bit
in your
mouth;
I
will
send
you
back the way you
came
. ’
Because of
thine
anger
towards
Me ,
And
thy
noise
--
it
came
up
into
Mine
ears, I have
put My hook in thy
nose ,
And My bridle
in thy
lips,
And
have
caused
thee
to
turn
back ,
In
the way in
which
thou
camest
.
And this will
be
a
sign
to you
, O
Hezekiah:
This
year you
will
eat
what
grows
on
its
own
, and in the second year what
springs
from
the same.
But
in the third year you
will
sow and reap ;
you
will
plant vineyards and eat their fruit
.
And this to thee
`is'
the
sign
, Food
of
the
year `is'
the
spontaneous
growth
, And in the second year the self-produced,
And
in the third year sow ye,
and reap ,
And
plant vineyards ,
and eat their fruits
.
And the surviving
remnant
of the house of Judah will
again
take root below
and bear
fruit above
.
And it
hath
continued
--
The escaped
of the house of Judah That
hath
been
left
--
to
take root beneath,
And hath
made
fruit upward
.
For a
remnant
will
go
forth
from Jerusalem, and survivors
from Mount Zion .
The zeal of the
LORD
of Hosts will
accomplish
this.
For from Jerusalem goeth
out
a
remnant
, And an
escape
from mount Zion ;
The zeal of Jehovah
`
of Hosts '
doth
this.
So
this
is
what
the
LORD
says
about
the king of Assyria
: ‘
He will
not enter
this city or
shoot an arrow into
it.
He will
not
come before it with a
shield or
build
up
a
siege
ramp
against it.
Therefore,
thus
said
Jehovah,
Concerning
the king of Asshur
: He doth
not come
in
unto
this city ,
Nor
doth
he
shoot there
an arrow ,
Nor
doth
he come before it with shield .
Nor
doth
he
pour
out
against it a
mount
.
He
will
go
back
the way he came
, and he
will
not
enter
this city, ’
declares
the LORD.
In
the way that
he cometh
in
--
In
it
he
turneth
back
, And unto
this city he
doth
not
come
in
, The affirmation
of
Jehovah
--
‘
I will
defend
this city and
save it for My
own sake and for the sake of My servant David
. ’”
And
I have
covered
over
this city ,
To
save it ,
for Mine
own sake ,
And for the sake of David
My servant. '
And that very
night the
angel
of the
LORD
went
out and
struck
down
185
, 000
men
in the camp of the
Assyrians.
When
the
people
got
up
the next
morning, there
were
all the
dead bodies!
And it
cometh
to
pass,
in
that night ,
that
a
messenger
of Jehovah
goeth
out, and
smiteth
in the camp of Asshur
a
hundred
eighty
and
five
thousand,
and
they
rise
early
in
the morning, and
lo,
all of
them
`are'
dead corpses.
So
Sennacherib king of Assyria
broke
camp
and withdrew.
He
returned
to
Nineveh
and stayed
there.
And
Sennacherib king of Asshur
journeyeth,
and goeth,
and turneth
back,
and
dwelleth
in
Nineveh;
One
day
, while
he was
worshiping
in the temple
of his god Nisroch
, his sons Adrammelech
and
Sharezer
put
him to
the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat .
And his
son
Esar-haddon reigned
in his place
.
and
it
cometh
to
pass
, he is
bowing
himself
in the house
of Nisroch
his god, and
Adramelech
and
Sharezar
`
his sons '
have
smitten
him with
the sword ,
and they
have
escaped to the land of Ararat ,
and Esar-Haddon his
son
reigneth
in his stead
.
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