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Isaiah 37 Brenton's Septuagint Translation

<!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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/36.htm" title="Isaiah 36">&#9668;</a> Isaiah 37 <a href="../isaiah/38.htm" title="Isaiah 38">&#9658;</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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/37-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Isaiah&#8217;s Message of Deliverance<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when king Ezekias heard <i>it, that</i> he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing <i>woman</i>, but she has not strength to bring forth. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>May the Lord thy God hear the words of Rabsaces, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: therefore thou shalt pray to thy Lord for these that are left.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not thou afraid at the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I <i>will</i> send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib&#8217;s Blasphemous Letter<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus shall ye say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where are the kings of Emath? and where <i>is the king of</i> Arphath? and where <i>is the king</i> of the city of Eppharuaim, <i>and of</i> Anagugana?<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah&#8217;s Prayer<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Ezekias received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubs, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world: thou hast made heaven and earth. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Incline thine ear, O Lord, hearken, O Lord; open thine eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord: and behold the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof, <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou art God alone.<p> <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib&#8217;s Fall Prophesied<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Sion has despised thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice? and hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For thou hast reproached the Lord by messengers; for thou hast said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Hast thou not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed <i>them</i> from ancient times; but now have I manifested <i>my purpose</i> of desolating nations in <i>their</i> strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I weakened <i>their</i> hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the house-tops, and as grass.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But now I know thy rest, and thy going out, and thy coming in.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And this shall be a sign to thee, Eat this year what thou hast sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they that are left in Judea shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward: <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>for out of Jerusalem there shall be a remnant, and the saved ones out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus saith the Lord. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.<p> <A name="37"></a><p class="hdg">Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all <i>these</i> bodies dead. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineve. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country's god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons smote him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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