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children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>It may be that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God heard all 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 style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I myself will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Sennacherib’s Threat</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>When the king<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-10071a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> heard concerning King Tirhakah of Ethiopia,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-10071b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> “See, he has set out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>“Thus shall you speak to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</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?”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Hezekiah’s Prayer</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then Hezekiah went up to the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and spread it before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>And Hezekiah prayed before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and said: “O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Incline your ear, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and hear; open your eyes, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and see; hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Truly, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>So now, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God, save us, I pray you, from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, are God alone.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: I have heard your prayer to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>This is the word that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has spoken concerning him:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">She despises you, she scorns you—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">virgin daughter Zion;</span></span><br /><span class="text">she tosses her head—behind your back,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">daughter Jerusalem.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>“Whom have you mocked and reviled?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Against whom have you raised your voice</span></span><br /><span class="text">and haughtily lifted your eyes?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you have said, ‘With my many chariots</span></span><br /><span class="text">I have gone up the heights of the mountains,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to the far recesses of Lebanon;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I felled its tallest cedars,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">its choicest cypresses;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I entered its farthest retreat,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">its densest forest.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>I dug wells</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and drank foreign waters,</span></span><br /><span class="text">I dried up with the sole of my foot</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">all the streams of Egypt.’</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>“Have you not heard</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that I determined it long ago?</span></span><br /><span class="text">I planned from days of old</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">what now I bring to pass,</span></span><br /><span class="text">that you should make fortified cities</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">crash into heaps of ruins,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">are dismayed and confounded;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they have become like plants of the field</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and like tender grass,</span></span><br /><span class="text">like grass on the housetops,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">blighted before it is grown.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>“But I know your rising<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-10089c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and your sitting,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your going out and coming in,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your raging against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Because you have raged against me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your arrogance has come to my ears,</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will put my hook in your nose</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my bit in your mouth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will turn you back on the way</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">by which you came.</span></span></p></div> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</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, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out, and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts will do this.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>“Therefore thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>That very night the angel of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 19:9">2 Kings 19:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 19:9">2 Kings 19:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Nubia</i>; Heb <i>Cush</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 19:27">2 Kings 19:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Compare Isa 37.27 Q Ms: MT lacks <i>rising</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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