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for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>‘It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh 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.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Isaiah saith unto 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.’</p> <a name="8" id="8"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib's Blasphemous Letter<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_kings/19.htm#8">2 Kings 19:8-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, ‘He hath come out to fight with thee;’ and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>‘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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands — to devote them — and thou art delivered! <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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 Telassar? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’</p> <p class="hdg">Hezekiah's Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself — Thyself alone — to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>‘Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>so as to put their gods into fire — for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone — and they destroy them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] Jehovah, Thyself alone.’</p> <p class="hdg">The Fall of Sennacherib</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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 —</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I — I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Hast thou not heard from afar? — it I did, From days of old — that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps — fenced cities,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because of thy 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 I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>— And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And it hath continued — the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left — To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.’</p> <p class="hdg">The Assyrian Camp Destroyed</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer 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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/36.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 36"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 36" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/38.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 38"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 38" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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