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ULT ISA Chapter 37

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37 And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, then he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of Yahweh. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the court, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet. 3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as sons coming to the opening of the womb, but there is no strength to give birth. 4 Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear the words of the chief commander, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. So, lift up a prayer for the remaining remnant.’ ”

5 And the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 and Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master: ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Do not be afraid from the face of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me. 7 Behold, I shall put a spirit in him, and he will hear a report and go back to his land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his land.” ’ ”

8 Then the chief commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had gone away from Lachish.

9 And he heard about Tirhakah king of Cush, saying “He has gone out to fight against you,” and he heard it, so he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them completely. And will you be rescued? 12 Have the gods of the nations rescued them whom my fathers destroyed: Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’ ”

14 And Hezekiah received the writings from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the house of Yahweh. And Hezekiah spread it out before the face of Yahweh. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 16 “Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, sitting by the cherubim, you are he: you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. It is you who made the heavens and the earth. 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and listen. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

18 Indeed, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their land. 19 And they have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of the hands of man, wood and stone. And they have destroyed them. 20 And now, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand; then all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, you alone.”

21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him:

“The virgin daughter of Zion

despises you, scorns you;

the daughter of Jerusalem

shakes her head at you.

23 Whom have you defied and insulted?

And against whom have you exalted your voice

and lifted upward your eyes?

Against the Holy One of Israel.

24 By the hand of your servants

you have defied the Lord

and you have said,

‘With the multitude of my chariots

I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

the reaches of Lebanon.

And I shall cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypresses,

and I shall enter into its farthest high places, its most fruitful forest.

25 It is I who has dug and drunk water;[fn]

And I dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the soles of my feet.’

26 Have you not heard?

Long ago I determined it,

and made it from days of old.

Now I am bringing it to pass,

that you should devastate the fortressed cities to heaps of ruins.

27 And their inhabitants, those short of hand,

are dismayed and ashamed.

They are plants of the field and green grass, grass of the roof or the field,

before the face of the east wind.

28 “But your sitting down

and your going out and your coming in, I know

and your raging against me.

29 Because of your raging against me,

and your arrogance coming up to my ears,

so I shall put my hook in your nose,

and my bit in your mouth,

and I shall turn you back to

the way by which you came.”

30 And this will be the sign for you:

“This year you will eat wild plants,

and in the second year the after-growth.

But in the third year you must sow and harvest

and plant vineyards and eat the fruit.

31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and produce fruit above.

32 For from Jerusalem a remnant will come out,

and survivors from Mount Zion.

The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.’ ”

33 Therefore, thus says Yahweh about the king of Assyria:

“He will not come into this city

and he will not shoot an arrow here.

And he will not bring near it a shield

and he will not build up against it siegeworks.

34 The way by which he came, he will return in,

and he will not enter to this city”

—the declaration of Yahweh—

35 “and I shall protect over this city, rescuing it,

for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

36 Then the angel of Yahweh went out and struck 185, 000 of the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold, all of them were dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and traveled and went back. And he stayed in Nineveh.

38 And it happened, he was worshiping in the house of Nisrok his god, and his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

Some ancient manuscripts have I have dug wells and drunk water in foreign lands.