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katapi HOME 2 Kings 19:20-37 - Isaiah's message to king Hezekiah.  2Kgs.19.20-37

19 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard. 19 21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him:

"She despises you, she scorns you -
the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you -
the daughter of Jerusalem.

19 22 "Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
19 23 By your messengers you have mocked the LORD,
and you have said, 'With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest retreat,
its densest forest.
19 24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.'

19 25 "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,

19 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field,
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops;
blighted before it is grown?

19 27 "But I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
19 28 Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come into my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you came.

19 29 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 19 30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; 19 31 for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.

19 32 "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it. 19 33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD. 19 34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."

19 35 And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 19 36 Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nin'eveh. 19 37 And as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And Esarhad'don his son reigned in his stead.


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