Verse
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Berean Standard Bible
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On
hearing
this
report
, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put
on
sackcloth, and entered
the house of the
LORD
.
It
happened
, when
king Hezekiah heard
it,
that
he
tore his clothes, and
covered
himself
with
sackcloth, and went
into
the house of Yahweh
.
And
he sent Eliakim the palace
administrator
, Shebna the scribe, and the leading
priests, all
wearing
sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah
son of Amoz
He sent Eliakim ,
who
was
over
the household
, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders
of
the
priests, covered
with
sackcloth, to Isaiah
the prophet the
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
.
They
said
to him, Thus
says Hezekiah,
This
day
is a day of trouble
, and
of
rebuke, and of
rejection
; for the
children have come to the birth, and
there is no strength to bring
forth
.
Perhaps
the
LORD
your God will hear 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
Yahweh
your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his
master
has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which
Yahweh
your God has heard. Therefore lift up your
prayer for the remnant that is
left
.
So the servants of King Hezekiah went
to Isaiah ,
So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to 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.
Isaiah
said
to
them
, Thus
shall
you
tell your master ,
Thus
says Yahweh,
Don't
be afraid of the words that
you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed 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. ’”
Behold, I will put a spirit in him ,
and
he shall
hear news,
and shall
return to his own land ;
and
I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his
own
land
.
When
the
Rabshakeh heard
that
the
king
of
Assyria
had
left
Lachish
, he
withdrew
and found the king fighting
against Libnah.
So
Rabshakeh returned
, and found the king of
Assyria
warring
against Libnah ;
for
he
had
heard
that
he
was
departed
from
Lachish
.
Now
Sennacherib
had
been
warned
about
Tirhakah king of Cush:
“
He has
set
out to fight against you. ”
On
hearing
this
, Sennacherib
sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
He
heard
say
concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
He is
come
out to fight against you. When
he
heard
it
, he
sent messengers to 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
shall
you
speak
to Hezekiah king of Judah ,
saying,
Don't
let your God in whom you trust deceive you ,
saying ,
Jerusalem shall
not be given
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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
?
Behold,
you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands
, by
destroying
them utterly:
and
shall
you be 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?
Have
the gods of the nations delivered
them,
which
my fathers have
destroyed,
Gozan, and
Haran, and Rezeph, and the children
of Eden who
were
in Telassar?
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, of
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
.
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of
the
messengers, and
read it ;
and Hezekiah
went up to the house of Yahweh,
and spread it before Yahweh
.
And
Hezekiah prayed to the
LORD:
Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh,
saying,
“O
LORD
of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned
above the cherubim, You alone
are God over
all the kingdoms of the earth .
You made the
heavens
and the
earth.
Yahweh
of hosts, the
God of Israel, who
sits
[
above ]
the cherubim, you are the
God ,
even
you
alone,
of
all the kingdoms of the earth ;
you have
made heaven
and earth.
Incline
Your ear, O
LORD
, and hear; open Your eyes, O
LORD
, and see.
Listen
to
all the words that
Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
Turn
your ear, Yahweh
, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh
, and behold;
and
hear
all the words of
Sennacherib ,
who
has sent to defy the living God.
Truly
, O
LORD
, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these
countries and their lands.
Of
a
truth
, Yahweh
, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
countries ,
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 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
.
And
now, O
LORD
our God, save us from his hand, so
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone,
O
LORD,
are God
. ”
Now therefore
, Yahweh
our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh,
even
you
only
.
Then 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,
Then Isaiah the
son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
Thus
says
Yahweh,
the God of Israel, Whereas
you have prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria,
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 which
Yahweh
has spoken concerning
him: The virgin daughter of Zion has
despised
you and ridiculed
you; the daughter of Jerusalem has
shaken
her head at
you.
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 have you defied
and blasphemed? and
against whom have you exalted
your voice and lifted up
your eyes on
high
? [even]
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 heights
, the densest
of its forests.
By
your servants have you
defied
the Lord, and have said ,
With the
multitude
of
my chariots am
I come
up
to the height
of the mountains, to the innermost
parts
of Lebanon ;
and
I will
cut down the
tall
cedars of
it
, and
the choice
fir
trees
of it;
and
I will
enter
into
its farthest height
, the forest
of its fruitful
field;
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 dug and drunk water,
and
with the sole
of my feet will
I dry
up all the rivers
of Egypt.
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
.
Have you not heard how
I
have
done
it
long ago ,
and
formed
it of ancient
times?
now have I
brought it to pass, that it
should be
your
to
lay
waste
fortified cities into ruinous
heaps
.
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.
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
a
field
[of
grain]
before it is grown up
.
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
But I know your sitting down, and
your going out ,
and your
coming in, and your raging against 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
your raging
against me ,
and
because
your
arrogance
is
come
up
into
my ears, therefore
will I
put my hook in your nose ,
and my bridle
in your lips,
and
I will turn
you back by
the way by
which
you came.
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.
This shall
be the
sign to you: you shall
eat this
year
that
which
grows of
itself
, and in the second year that
which
springs of
the same ;
and
in the third year sow you,
and reap ,
and
plant vineyards ,
and eat the
fruit of
it
.
And
the surviving
remnant of the house of Judah will
again take root below
and bear fruit above
.
The remnant that
is
escaped
of the house of Judah shall
again take root downward,
and bear 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 out
of
Jerusalem
shall
go forth a
remnant
, and out
of
Mount Zion those
who
shall
escape
. The zeal of Yahweh
of Hosts will perform
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
says Yahweh
concerning
the king of Assyria ,
He shall
not come
to
this city ,
nor
shoot an arrow there,
neither
shall
he come before it with shield ,
nor
cast
up a mound
against it.
He
will
go
back
the way he came, and he will
not enter
this city, ’
declares
the
LORD
.
By
the way that
he came, by
the
same
shall
he
return,
and he shall
not come
to
this city, says
Yahweh
.
‘
I will defend this city and
save it for My own sake and for the
sake
of
My servant David
. ’”
For
I will defend this city to
save it ,
for my own sake ,
and for my servant David's
sake
.
Then
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 !
The angel of Yahweh
went forth,
and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one
hundred
and
eighty-five
thousand;
and
when men
arose
early
in
the morning, behold,
these
were all dead bodies .
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke
camp
and withdrew.
He
returned to
Nineveh
and stayed
there
.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and went
and
returned ,
and lived
at
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.
It
happened
, as
he was worshipping
in the house
of Nisroch
his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his
sons
struck
him with
the sword ;
and they
escaped into
the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his
son
reigned in his place.
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