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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 37 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/37.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Isaiah 37</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/36.htm" title="Isaiah 36">◄</a> Isaiah 37 <a href="../isaiah/38.htm" title="Isaiah 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Help</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It may be that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably Nubia">a</a></sup></span> “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”</p> <p class="heading">Hezekiah’s Prayer for Deliverance</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and spread it before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Incline your ear, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and hear; open your eyes, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Truly, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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 were destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So now, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</p> <p class="heading">Sennacherib’s Fall</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>this is the word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken concerning him:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“‘She despises you, she scorns you—</span><br /><span class="indent">the virgin daughter of Zion;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">she wags her head behind you—</span><br /><span class="indent">the daughter of Jerusalem.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?</span><br /><span class="indent">Against whom have you raised your voice</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and lifted your eyes to the heights?</span><br /><span class="indent">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By your servants you have mocked the Lord,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you have said, With my many chariots</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I have gone up the heights of the mountains,</span><br /><span class="indent">to the far recesses of Lebanon,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to cut down its tallest cedars,</span><br /><span class="indent">its choicest cypresses,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to come to its remotest height,</span><br /><span class="indent">its most fruitful forest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I dug wells</span><br /><span class="indent">and drank waters,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to dry up with the sole of my foot</span><br /><span class="indent">all the streams of Egypt.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“‘Have you not heard</span><br /><span class="indent">that I determined it long ago?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I planned from days of old</span><br /><span class="indent">what now I bring to pass,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that you should make fortified cities</span><br /><span class="indent">crash into heaps of ruins,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,</span><br /><span class="indent">are dismayed and confounded,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and have become like plants of the field</span><br /><span class="indent">and like tender grass,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like grass on the housetops,</span><br /><span class="indent">blighted<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts a field">b</a></sup></span> before it is grown.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“‘I know your sitting down</span><br /><span class="indent">and your going out and coming in,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your raging against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because you have raged against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and your complacency has come to my ears,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will put my hook in your nose</span><br /><span class="indent">and my bit in your mouth,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will turn you back on the way</span><br /><span class="indent">by which you came.’</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts will do this.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“Therefore thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Probably <i>Nubia</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts <i>a field</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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