ULT ISA Chapter 37

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37 And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, that he tore his clothes, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he came into the house of Yahweh. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, having covered themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophet. 3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of trouble and chastisement and reproach, for sons have come to the birth canal, but there is no strength to give birth. 4 Perhaps Yahweh your God will have heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to taunt the living God, and he will chastise the words that Yahweh your God has heard. And may you lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.’ ” 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, “May you not be afraid from the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold me, putting a spirit in him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.” ’ ” 8 And the Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9 Then he heard concerning Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, “He has come out to fight with you.” And he heard, and he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your God, in whom you are trusting, deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11 Behold, you, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all of the lands by destroying them. So you, will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed deliver them, Gozan or Haran or Rezeph or the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad or the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’ ”

14 And Hezekiah took the writings from the hand of the messengers, and he read it. And he went up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out to the face of Yahweh. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, sitter above the cherubim, you are he, God, you alone, over all of the kingdoms of the earth. You, you made the heavens and the earth. 17 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. And hear all of the words of Sennacherib by which he has sent to taunt the living God. 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all of the nations and their land. 19 And they have put their gods in the fire, for they are not gods, but rather 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, so that all of the kingdoms of the earth will know that you are Yahweh, you alone.”

21 And Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to me about Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken about him. The virgin, the daughter of Zion, despises you, she derides you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes a head after you. 23 Whom have you mocked and taunted? And against whom have you raised a voice and lifted your eyes upward? Against the Holy One of Israel! 24 By the hand of your servants you mocked the Lord and said, “With the multitude of my chariotry, I, I went up to the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon. And I cut down the heights of its cedars, the choicest of its cypress trees, that I might enter the lodging place of its end, the forest of its garden. 25 I, I dug, and I drank waters. And with the sole of my feet I will dry up all of the streams of Matsor.”

26 Have you not heard? From long ago, I did it; from days of antiquity, I formed it. Now I have brought it, that you should be for devastating fortified cities into ruined heaps. 27 And their dwellers are short of hand; they have dismay and have shame. They are vegetation of the field or green of herb; grass of roofs, blasting to the face of growing up. 28 But I know your dwelling and your going out and your coming in and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and your arrogance has come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your lips, and I will make you return on the way by which you came.’

30 And this will be the sign for you. This year, you will eat wild grain, and in the second year, its offspring. But in the third year, sow and harvest, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 And the remaining survival of the house of Judah will add a root downward, and it will make fruit upward. 32 For a remnant will come out from Jerusalem, and a survival, from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will do this. 33 Therefore, thus says Yahweh about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not come to this city, and he will not shoot an arrow there, and he will not come before it with a shield, and he will not pour out a mound against it. 34 He will return by the way on which he came, and he will not come to this city’—the declaration of Yahweh—35 ‘for I will cover over this city to save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”

36 And the angel of Yahweh went out and struck in the camp of Assyria, 185, 000. And they arose early in the morning and behold, all of them were dead corpses. 37 And he departed and went, and Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, returned and stayed in Nineveh. 38 And it happened, he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they, they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.