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So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.” <span id="v12019005" class="ver">5</span>When the servants of King Hezekiah had come to Isaiah, <span id="v12019006" class="ver">6</span>he said to them, “Tell this to your lord: Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>: Do not be frightened by the words you have heard, by which the deputies of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.<a id="ren12019006-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019006-a">a</a> <span id="v12019007" class="ver">7</span>I am putting in him such a spirit that when he hears a report he will return to his land. I will make him fall by the sword in his land.”</p> <p><span id="v12019008" class="ver">8</span>When the commander, on his return, heard that the king of Assyria had withdrawn from Lachish, he found him besieging Libnah.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Sennacherib, Hezekiah, and Isaiah.</span> <span id="v12019009" class="ver">9</span>The king of Assyria heard a report: “Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, has come out to fight against you.” Again he sent messengers to Hezekiah to say: <span id="v12019010" class="ver">10</span>“Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ <span id="v12019011" class="ver">11</span>You, certainly, have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands: they put them under the ban! And are you to be rescued? <span id="v12019012" class="ver">12</span><a id="ren12019012-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019012-b">b</a> Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the Edenites in Telassar? <span id="v12019013" class="ver">13</span>Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, or the kings of the cities Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”</p> <p><span id="v12019014" class="ver">14</span>Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then he went up to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, and spreading it out before the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, <span id="v12019015" class="ver">15</span>Hezekiah prayed in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s presence: “<span class="tetr">Lord</span>, God of Israel, enthroned on the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. It is you who made the heavens and the earth.<a id="ren12019015-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019015-c">c</a> <span id="v12019016" class="ver">16</span>Incline your ear, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, and listen! Open your eyes, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, and see! Hear the words Sennacherib has sent to taunt the living God. <span id="v12019017" class="ver">17</span>Truly, O <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands. <span id="v12019018" class="ver">18</span>They gave their gods to the fire—they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands—wood and stone, they destroyed them. <span id="v12019019" class="ver">19</span>Therefore, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, save us from this man’s power, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, are God.”<a id="ren12019019-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019019-d">d</a></p> <p><span id="v12019020" class="ver">20</span>Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah: “Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to whom you have prayed concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria: I have listened! <span id="v12019021" class="ver">21</span><a id="rfn12019021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12019021-1">*</a> This is the word the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has spoken concerning him:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">She despises you, laughs you to scorn,</p> <p class="sl1">the virgin daughter Zion!</p> <p class="sl">Behind you she wags her head,</p> <p class="sl1">daughter Jerusalem.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019022" class="ver">22</span>Whom have you insulted and blasphemed,</p> <p class="sl1">at whom have you raised your voice</p> <p class="sl">And lifted up your eyes on high?</p> <p class="sl1">At the Holy One of Israel!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019023" class="ver">23</span>Through the mouths of your messengers</p> <p class="sl1">you insulted the Lord when you said,</p> <p class="sl">‘With my many chariots I went up</p> <p class="sl1">to the tops of the peaks,</p> <p class="sl1">to the recesses of Lebanon,</p> <p class="sl">To cut down its lofty cedars,</p> <p class="sl1">its choice cypresses;</p> <p class="sl">I reached to the farthest shelter,</p> <p class="sl1">the forest ranges.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019024" class="ver">24</span>I myself dug wells</p> <p class="sl1">and drank foreign waters,</p> <p class="sl">Drying up all the rivers of Egypt</p> <p class="sl1">beneath the soles of my feet.’</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v12019025" class="ver">25</span>“Have you not heard?</p> <p class="sl1">A long time ago I prepared it,</p> <p class="sl1">from days of old I planned it.</p> <p class="sl">Now I have brought it about:</p> <p class="sl">You are here to reduce</p> <p class="sl1">fortified cities to heaps of ruins,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019026" class="ver">26</span>Their people powerless,</p> <p class="sl1">dismayed and distraught.</p> <p class="sl">They are plants of the field,</p> <p class="sl1">green growth,</p> <p class="sl1">thatch on the rooftops,</p> <p class="sl">Grain scorched by the east wind.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019027" class="ver">27</span>I know when you stand or sit,</p> <p class="sl1">when you come or go<a id="ren12019027-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019027-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">and how you rage against me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019028" class="ver">28</span>Because you rage against me,</p> <p class="sl1">and your smugness has reached my ears,</p> <p class="sl">I will put my hook in your nose</p> <p class="sl1">and my bit in your mouth,</p> <p class="sl">And make you leave by the way you came.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v12019029" class="ver">29</span>“This shall be a sign for you:</p> <p class="sl">This year you shall eat the aftergrowth,</p> <p class="sl1">next year, what grows of itself;</p> <p class="sl">But in the third year, sow and reap,</p> <p class="sl1">plant vineyards and eat their fruit!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019030" class="ver">30</span>The remaining survivors of the house of Judah</p> <p class="sl1">shall again strike root below</p> <p class="sl1">and bear fruit above.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019031" class="ver">31</span>For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant,</p> <p class="sl1">and from Mount Zion, survivors.</p> <p class="sll">The zeal of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts shall do this.</p> </div> <p><span id="v12019032" class="ver">32</span>“Therefore, thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> about the king:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">He shall not come as far as this city,</p> <p class="sl1">nor shoot there an arrow,</p> <p class="sl1">nor confront it with a shield,</p> <p class="sl">Nor cast up a siege-work against it.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019033" class="ver">33</span>By the way he came he shall leave,</p> <p class="sl1">never coming as far as this city,</p> <p class="sl1">oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v12019034" class="ver">34</span>I will shield and save this city</p> <p class="sl1l">for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”<a id="ren12019034-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019034-f">f</a></p> </div> <p><span id="v12019035" class="ver">35</span>That night the angel of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, dead, all those corpses!<a id="ren12019035-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12019035-g">g</a> <span id="v12019036" class="ver">36</span>So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh.</p> <p><span id="v12019037" class="ver">37</span>When he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. 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