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          DASV: Isaiah 37    

1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, put on
sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 They said to him, "This is what Hezekiah says, 'This day is
a day of trouble, insults, and of disgrace. It is like when
children are at the point of birth, but there is no strength
left to deliver them.
4 It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of the Assyrian
commander, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to
defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the
LORD your God has heard. So lift up your prayer for the
remnant that is still left here."
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 Then Isaiah said to them, "This is what you are to tell
your master, 'This is what the LORD says, Do not afraid of
the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Look, I will put a spirit in him, he will hear rumors, and
will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.'"

8 So the Assyrian commander returned, and found the king of
Assyria attacking Libnah, for he heard that he had left Lachish.
9 He heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He is come
out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers
to Hezekiah, saying,
10 "This is what you will say to Hezekiah king of Judah, "Let
not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, 'Jerusalem
will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.'
11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by totally destroying them, and do you really think
that you will be rescued?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my
predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children
of Eden that were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the
kings of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Iwah?"

14 After Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it; he went up to the house of the LORD,
and spread it out before the LORD.
15 Hezekiah prayed to the LORD,
16 "O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits enthroned
between the cherubim, you alone are God of all the kingdoms
of the earth. You made heaven and earth.
17 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear! Open your eyes, O LORD,
and see! Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to
defy the living God.
18 It is true, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
all the countries and their land.
19 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were
no gods at all but only the work of human hands, merely
wood and stone. Therefore the Assyrians have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand,
so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
you alone are the LORD."

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,
     "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Because
      you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22 this is the word which the LORD has spoken about him:
      "The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you.
      The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head as you flee.
23 Whom have you defied and insulted?
      Against whom have you lifted your voice
           and arrogantly lifted up your eyes?
      Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said,
      "With my many chariots I have climbed to the mountains tops,
           to the remote parts of Lebanon.
      I cut down its tall cedars,
           and its choice cypresses.
      I have penetrated its remotest heights,
           its thickest forests.
25 I dug and drank water,
      and with the sole of my feet
      I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
26 Have you not heard how I have determined it long ago?
           I planned it from ancient times.
      Now I have brought it to pass,
           that you should crush fortified cities into piles of ruins.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were powerless,
          they were dismayed and put to shame.
      They were like the grass of the field,
           and like green plants,
           like the grass on the rooftops,
          scorched before it is grown up.
28 But I know your sitting down,
      and your going out,
      and your coming in,
      and your raging against me.
29 Because of your raging against me
      and your arrogance has reached my ears,
      therefore I will put my hook in your nose,
      and my bit in your mouth,
      and I will turn you back by the way that you came.
30 This will be a sign for you, Hezekiah:
      This year you will eat whatever grows by itself,
           and in the second year whatever springs up from that.
      In the third year you will sow,
           reap, plant vineyards,
                and eat its fruit.
31 The remnant that escaped from the house of Judah
      will again take root below and bear fruit above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,
      and out of Mount Zion a group of survivors.
      The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
33 "Therefore this is what the LORD says about the
king of Assyria:
     He will not come to this city,
           or shoot an arrow here.
     He will not come before it with shield,
           or cast up a siege ramp against it.
34 By the same way that he came, he will leave,
     and he will not come into this city,"
           says the LORD.
35 "For I will defend this city to save it,
      for my own sake,
           and for the sake of my servant David."

36 Then the angel of LORD went out, and struck down
185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When they got
up early in the morning, there were all dead bodies.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria left, and went and
returned home, and lived in Nineveh.
38 As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, killed him with the
sword. They escaped into the land of Ararat. Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his place.

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