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Chapter 19
- 19:1
- 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.
- 19:2
- And he sent Eliakim, which 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.
- 19:3
- And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy;
for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
- 19:4
- It may be the LORD thy God will
hear all 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 are left.
- 19:5
- So the servants of king Hezekiah
came to Isaiah.
- 19:6
- And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the
words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
- 19:7
- Behold, I will send a blast upon
him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and
I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- 19:8
- So Rabshakeh returned, and found
the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he
was departed from Lachish.
- 19:9
- And when he heard say of Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he
sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
- 19:10
- 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 delivered into the hand of the
king of Assyria.
- 19:11
- Behold, thou hast heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly:
and shalt thou be delivered?
- 19:12
- 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 Thelasar?
- 19:13
- Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
and Ivah?
- 19:14
- And Hezekiah received the letter
of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
- 19:15
- And Hezekiah prayed before the
LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the
cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of
the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
- 19:16
- LORD, bow down thine ear, and
hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of
Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
- 19:17
- Of a truth, LORD, the kings of
Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
- 19:18
- 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.
- 19:19
- Now therefore, O LORD our God, I
beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of
the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
- 19:20
- Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which
thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have
heard.
- 19:21
- This is the word that 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.
- 19:22
- 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.
- 19:23
- By thy messengers thou hast
reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots
I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon,
and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir
trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and
into the forest of his Carmel.
- 19:24
- I have digged and drunk strange
waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of
besieged places.
- 19:25
- 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 fenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
- 19:26
- 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 house
tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- 19:27
- But I know thy abode, and thy
going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
- 19:28
- Because thy rage against me and
thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
- 19:29
- And this shall be a sign unto
thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in
the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third
year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits
thereof.
- 19:30
- And the remnant that is escaped of
the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward.
- 19:31
- 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.
- 19:32
- 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 shield, nor cast a bank
against it.
- 19:33
- By the way that he came, by the
same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the
LORD.
- 19:34
- For I will defend this city, to
save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
- 19:35
- And it came to pass that night,
that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- 19:36
- So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- 19:37
- 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 Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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