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BrLXXἈλλὰ τῇ ὁδῷ ᾗ ἦλθεν, ἐν αὐτῇ ἀποστραφήσεται, καὶ εἰς τὴν πόλιν ταύτην οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ· τάδε λέγει Κύριος. (Alla taʸ hodōi haʸ aʸlthen, en autaʸ apostrafaʸsetai, kai eis taʸn polin tautaʸn ou maʸ eiselthaʸ; tade legei Kurios. )
BrTrBut by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus saith the Lord.
ULTThe way by which he came, he will return in, ⇔ and he will not enter to this city” ⇔ —the declaration of Yahweh—
USTInstead, their king will return to his own country ⇔ on the same road on which he came here. ⇔ He will not enter this city! ¶ That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!
BSBHe will go back the way he came, ⇔ and he will not enter this city,’ ⇔ declares the LORD.
OEBBut back he will go by the way that he came, ⇔ and into this city he will not enter;
WEBBEHe will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says the LORD.
NETHe will go back the way he came – ⇔ he will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.
LSVIn the way that he came, in it he turns back, And to this city he does not come in, A declaration of YHWH,
FBVHe shall return the same way he came, and he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.
T4TAnd their king will return to his own country ⇔ on the same road on which he came here. ⇔ He will not enter this city!’ ¶ That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!
LEB• and he shall not come to this city,’ ¶ declares[fn] Yahweh.
JPSBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD.
ASVBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
DRABy the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
YLTIn the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,
DrbyBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
RVBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD.
WbstrBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
KJB-1769By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. (By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith/says the LORD. )
KJB-1611By the way that he came, by the same shall he returne, and shall not come into this citie, saith the LORD. (By the way that he came, by the same shall he returne, and shall not come into this city, saith/says the LORD.)
BshpsThe same way he came he shall returne, and not come at this citie, saith the Lorde. (The same way he came he shall returne, and not come at this city, saith/says the Lord.)
GnvaBy the same way that he came, he shall returne, and not come into this citie, saith the Lord. (By the same way that he came, he shall returne, and not come into this city, saith/says the Lord. )
CvdlThe same waye that he came, shal he returne, and not come at this citie, saieth the LORDE. (The same way that he came, shall he returne, and not come at this city, saith/says the LORD.)
WyclIn the weie in which he cam, he schal turne ayen bi it; and he schal not entre in to this citee, seith the Lord. (In the way in which he came, he shall turn again by it; and he shall not enter in to this city, saith/says the Lord.)
Luthsondern des Weges, des er kommen ist, soll er wiederkehren, daß er in diese Stadt nicht komme, spricht der HErr. (rather the Weges, the he coming is, should he againkehren, that he in this/these city not komme, says the/of_the LORD.)
ClVgIn via qua venit, per eam revertetur, et civitatem hanc non ingredietur, dicit Dominus. (In road which venit, through her revertetur, and civitatem hanc not/no ingredietur, dicit Master. )
37:30-35 In this prophecy of salvation, Isaiah assured Hezekiah that Jerusalem would be spared and that the remnant was under God’s protection. The names of Isaiah and his sons anticipated God’s rescue (see 7:1–11:16). The book’s record of God’s presence and rescue provided assurance that the Lord would always have a remnant that he will protect and rescue.
(Some words not found in UHB: in/on/at/with,way which/who he/it_came in/on/at/with,her return and=near/to the=city the,this not come declares YHWH )
Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. Translate as in Isaiah 30:1. Alternate translation: “this is what Yahweh has declared” or “this is what I, Yahweh, have declared”
The harrowing experience of the attack on Judah by King Sennacherib of Assyria during Hezekiah’s reign is recorded by three different writers of Scripture and even by Sennacherib himself. Many scholars also suspect that this event formed the basis for Herodotus’s story regarding an army of mice eating the bow strings of the Assyrian army during their campaign against the Egyptians (Histories, 2.141). The origins of this event stretch back into the reign of Hezekiah’s father Ahaz, who enticed the Assyrians to attack Israel and Aram in exchange for making Judah a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7-8; also see “The Final Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel” map). Judah continued to be a vassal of Assyria through the early part of Hezekiah’s reign, but Hezekiah also quietly made extensive preparations to throw off the yoke of Assyria one day (2 Kings 18:1-12; 1 Chronicles 4:39-43; 2 Chronicles 29-31; also see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Hezekiah also appears to have been hoping for support from Babylon and Egypt regarding his efforts to revolt against Assyria’s rule, but the prophet Isaiah warned Judah against placing their hopes in these foreign powers (Isaiah 30:1-5; 31:1-3; 39:1-8; 40:10-15; 2 Kings 20:12-19). After a few years spent quashing rebellion among the Babylonians, the Kassites, and the Medes in the east, Sennacherib turned his sights westward and began a campaign to subdue the various vassal nations that were refusing to submit to Assyria’s rule any longer. He first reconquered the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre and then moved south to Philistia. He subdued Joppa, Beth-dagon, Bene-berak, and Azor and then moved to capture the cities of the Shephelah, which guarded the entrances to the valleys leading into the central hill country of Judah. While Sennacherib was attacking Lachish he sent his officers to demand Hezekiah’s surrender. This may be the Assyrian advance upon Jerusalem from the north described in Isaiah 10:28-32, but this is not certain (see “Assyria Advances on Jerusalem” map). Hezekiah sent officers back to Sennacherib with gold and silver taken from Temple and the royal treasury, but he would not surrender. The officers then traveled to Libnah to meet with Sennacherib, for he gone to fight there by that time. In the meantime King Tirhakah of Cush, who was ruling over Egypt at this time, came to attack Sennacherib, so Sennacherib sent his officials back to Hezekiah with a message that Jerusalem would be taken if he resisted. Hezekiah laid the letter from the officials before the Lord and prayed, and the Lord sent word through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem would not be taken. Then that very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (probably those with Sennacherib fighting the Egyptians), and Sennacherib went back to Assyria. There while he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, Sennacherib’s sons killed him and fled to Ararat (see “Ararat” map).
