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Isaiah 32-37
New International Version
Isaiah 32-37
New International Version
The Kingdom of Righteousness
32 See, a king(A) will reign in righteousness
and rulers will rule with justice.(B)
2 Each one will be like a shelter(C) from the wind
and a refuge from the storm,(D)
like streams of water(E) in the desert(F)
and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.
3 Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed,(G)
and the ears(H) of those who hear will listen.
4 The fearful heart will know and understand,(I)
and the stammering tongue(J) will be fluent and clear.
5 No longer will the fool(K) be called noble
nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
6 For fools speak folly,(L)
their hearts are bent on evil:(M)
They practice ungodliness(N)
and spread error(O) concerning the Lord;
the hungry they leave empty(P)
and from the thirsty they withhold water.
7 Scoundrels use wicked methods,(Q)
they make up evil schemes(R)
to destroy the poor with lies,
even when the plea of the needy(S) is just.(T)
8 But the noble make noble plans,
and by noble deeds(U) they stand.(V)
The Women of Jerusalem
9 You women(W) who are so complacent,
rise up and listen(X) to me;
you daughters who feel secure,(Y)
hear what I have to say!
10 In little more than a year(Z)
you who feel secure will tremble;
the grape harvest will fail,(AA)
and the harvest of fruit will not come.
11 Tremble,(AB) you complacent women;
shudder, you daughters who feel secure!(AC)
Strip off your fine clothes(AD)
and wrap yourselves in rags.(AE)
12 Beat your breasts(AF) for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vines(AG)
13 and for the land of my people,
a land overgrown with thorns and briers(AH)—
yes, mourn(AI) for all houses of merriment
and for this city of revelry.(AJ)
14 The fortress(AK) will be abandoned,
the noisy city deserted;(AL)
citadel and watchtower(AM) will become a wasteland forever,
the delight of donkeys,(AN) a pasture for flocks,(AO)
15 till the Spirit(AP) is poured on us from on high,
and the desert becomes a fertile field,(AQ)
and the fertile field seems like a forest.(AR)
16 The Lord’s justice(AS) will dwell in the desert,(AT)
his righteousness(AU) live in the fertile field.
17 The fruit of that righteousness(AV) will be peace;(AW)
its effect will be quietness and confidence(AX) forever.
18 My people will live in peaceful(AY) dwelling places,
in secure homes,(AZ)
in undisturbed places of rest.(BA)
19 Though hail(BB) flattens the forest(BC)
and the city is leveled(BD) completely,
20 how blessed you will be,
sowing(BE) your seed by every stream,(BF)
and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.(BG)
Distress and Help
33 Woe(BH) to you, destroyer,
you who have not been destroyed!
Woe to you, betrayer,
you who have not been betrayed!
When you stop destroying,
you will be destroyed;(BI)
when you stop betraying,
you will be betrayed.(BJ)
2 Lord, be gracious(BK) to us;
we long for you.
Be our strength(BL) every morning,
our salvation(BM) in time of distress.(BN)
3 At the uproar of your army,(BO) the peoples flee;(BP)
when you rise up,(BQ) the nations scatter.
4 Your plunder,(BR) O nations, is harvested(BS) as by young locusts;(BT)
like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
5 The Lord is exalted,(BU) for he dwells on high;(BV)
he will fill Zion with his justice(BW) and righteousness.(BX)
6 He will be the sure foundation for your times,
a rich store of salvation(BY) and wisdom and knowledge;
the fear(BZ) of the Lord is the key to this treasure.[a](CA)
7 Look, their brave men(CB) cry aloud in the streets;
the envoys(CC) of peace weep bitterly.
8 The highways are deserted,
no travelers(CD) are on the roads.(CE)
The treaty is broken,(CF)
its witnesses[b] are despised,
no one is respected.
9 The land dries up(CG) and wastes away,
Lebanon(CH) is ashamed and withers;(CI)
Sharon(CJ) is like the Arabah,
and Bashan(CK) and Carmel(CL) drop their leaves.
10 “Now will I arise,(CM)” says the Lord.
“Now will I be exalted;(CN)
now will I be lifted up.
11 You conceive(CO) chaff,
you give birth(CP) to straw;
your breath is a fire(CQ) that consumes you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes;(CR)
like cut thornbushes(CS) they will be set ablaze.(CT)”
13 You who are far away,(CU) hear(CV) what I have done;
you who are near, acknowledge my power!
14 The sinners(CW) in Zion are terrified;
trembling(CX) grips the godless:
“Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?(CY)
Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
15 Those who walk righteously(CZ)
and speak what is right,(DA)
who reject gain from extortion(DB)
and keep their hands from accepting bribes,(DC)
who stop their ears against plots of murder
and shut their eyes(DD) against contemplating evil—
16 they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,(DE)
whose refuge(DF) will be the mountain fortress.(DG)
Their bread will be supplied,
and water will not fail(DH) them.
17 Your eyes will see the king(DI) in his beauty(DJ)
and view a land that stretches afar.(DK)
18 In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror:(DL)
“Where is that chief officer?
Where is the one who took the revenue?
Where is the officer in charge of the towers?(DM)”
19 You will see those arrogant people(DN) no more,
people whose speech is obscure,
whose language is strange and incomprehensible.(DO)
20 Look on Zion,(DP) the city of our festivals;
your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful abode,(DQ) a tent(DR) that will not be moved;(DS)
its stakes will never be pulled up,
nor any of its ropes broken.
21 There the Lord will be our Mighty(DT) One.
It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams.(DU)
No galley with oars will ride them,
no mighty ship(DV) will sail them.
22 For the Lord is our judge,(DW)
the Lord is our lawgiver,(DX)
the Lord is our king;(DY)
it is he who will save(DZ) us.
23 Your rigging hangs loose:
The mast is not held secure,
the sail is not spread.
Then an abundance of spoils will be divided
and even the lame(EA) will carry off plunder.(EB)
24 No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”;(EC)
and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.(ED)
Judgment Against the Nations
34 Come near, you nations, and listen;(EE)
pay attention, you peoples!(EF)
Let the earth(EG) hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!(EH)
2 The Lord is angry with all nations;
his wrath(EI) is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy[c](EJ) them,
he will give them over to slaughter.(EK)
3 Their slain(EL) will be thrown out,
their dead bodies(EM) will stink;(EN)
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.(EO)
4 All the stars in the sky will be dissolved(EP)
and the heavens rolled up(EQ) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall(ER)
like withered(ES) leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
5 My sword(ET) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(EU)
the people I have totally destroyed.(EV)
6 The sword(EW) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(EX) in Bozrah(EY)
and a great slaughter(EZ) in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen(FA) will fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.(FB)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(FC)
and the dust will be soaked with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day(FD) of vengeance,(FE)
a year of retribution,(FF) to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her dust into burning sulfur;(FG)
her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will not be quenched(FH) night or day;
its smoke will rise forever.(FI)
From generation to generation(FJ) it will lie desolate;(FK)
no one will ever pass through it again.
11 The desert owl[d](FL) and screech owl[e] will possess it;
the great owl[f] and the raven(FM) will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom(FN)
the measuring line of chaos(FO)
and the plumb line(FP) of desolation.
12 Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
all her princes(FQ) will vanish(FR) away.
13 Thorns(FS) will overrun her citadels,
nettles and brambles her strongholds.(FT)
She will become a haunt for jackals,(FU)
a home for owls.(FV)
14 Desert creatures(FW) will meet with hyenas,(FX)
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures(FY) will also lie down
and find for themselves places of rest.
15 The owl will nest there and lay eggs,
she will hatch them, and care for her young
under the shadow of her wings;(FZ)
there also the falcons(GA) will gather,
each with its mate.
16 Look in the scroll(GB) of the Lord and read:
None of these will be missing,(GC)
not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth(GD) that has given the order,(GE)
and his Spirit will gather them together.
17 He allots their portions;(GF)
his hand distributes them by measure.
They will possess it forever
and dwell there from generation to generation.(GG)
Joy of the Redeemed
35 The desert(GH) and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.(GI)
Like the crocus,(GJ) 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.(GK)
The glory of Lebanon(GL) will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel(GM) and Sharon;(GN)
they will see the glory(GO) of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.(GP)
3 Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees(GQ) that give way;
4 say(GR) to those with fearful hearts,(GS)
“Be strong, do not fear;(GT)
your God will come,(GU)
he will come with vengeance;(GV)
with divine retribution
he will come to save(GW) you.”
5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened(GX)
and the ears of the deaf(GY) unstopped.
6 Then will the lame(GZ) leap like a deer,(HA)
and the mute tongue(HB) shout for joy.(HC)
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams(HD) in the desert.
7 The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground(HE) bubbling springs.(HF)
In the haunts where jackals(HG) once lay,
grass and reeds(HH) and papyrus will grow.
8 And a highway(HI) will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;(HJ)
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean(HK) will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
9 No lion(HL) will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;(HM)
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed(HN) will walk there,
10 and those the Lord has rescued(HO) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;(HP)
everlasting joy(HQ) will crown their heads.
Gladness(HR) and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(HS)
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem(HT)
36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s(HU) reign, Sennacherib(HV) king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.(HW) 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish(HX) to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,(HY) 3 Eliakim(HZ) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator,(IA) Shebna(IB) the secretary,(IC) and Joah(ID) son of Asaph the recorder(IE) went out to him.
4 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
“‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel(IF) against me? 6 Look, I know you are depending(IG) on Egypt,(IH) that splintered reed(II) of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 But if you say to me, “We are depending(IJ) on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed,(IK) saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?(IL)
8 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses(IM)—if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt(IN) for chariots(IO) and horsemen[g]?(IP) 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told(IQ) me to march against this country and destroy it.’”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah(IR) said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(IS) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
12 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?(IT)”
13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew,(IU) “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!(IV) 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive(IW) you. He cannot deliver you! 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver(IX) us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’(IY)
16 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(IZ) and drink water from your own cistern,(JA) 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own(JB)—a land of grain and new wine,(JC) a land of bread and vineyards.
18 “Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?(JD) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?(JE) Have they rescued Samaria(JF) from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods(JG) of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”(JH)
21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”(JI)
22 Then Eliakim(JJ) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder(JK) went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn,(JL) and told him what the field commander had said.
Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(JM)
37 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes(JN) and put on sackcloth(JO) and went into the temple(JP) of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim(JQ) the palace administrator, Shebna(JR) the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.(JS) 3 They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress(JT) and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth(JU) and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(JV) the living God,(JW) and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard.(JX) Therefore pray(JY) for the remnant(JZ) that still survives.”
5 When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid(KA) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed(KB) me. 7 Listen! When he hears a certain report,(KC) I will make him want(KD) to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down(KE) with the sword.’”
8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(KF) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(KG)
9 Now Sennacherib(KH) received a report(KI) that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[h](KJ) was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive(KK) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’(KL) 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?(KM) 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors(KN) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,(KO) Rezeph and the people of Eden(KP) who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?(KQ) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,(KR) Hena and Ivvah?”(KS)
Hezekiah’s Prayer(KT)
14 Hezekiah received the letter(KU) from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple(KV) of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed(KW) to the Lord: 16 “Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned(KX) between the cherubim,(KY) you alone are God(KZ) over all the kingdoms(LA) of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.(LB) 17 Give ear, Lord, and hear;(LC) open your eyes, Lord, and see;(LD) listen to all the words Sennacherib(LE) has sent to ridicule(LF) the living God.(LG)
18 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.(LH) 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire(LI) and destroyed them,(LJ) for they were not gods(LK) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(LL) 20 Now, Lord our God, deliver(LM) us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth(LN) may know that you, Lord, are the only God.[i](LO)”
Sennacherib’s Fall(LP)
21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz(LQ) sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:
“Virgin Daughter(LR) Zion(LS)
despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head(LT) as you flee.
23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(LU)
Against whom have you raised your voice(LV)
and lifted your eyes in pride?(LW)
Against the Holy One(LX) of Israel!
24 By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
‘With my many chariots(LY)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights(LZ) of Lebanon.(MA)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.(MB)
I have reached its remotest heights,
the finest of its forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign lands[j]
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up(MC) all the streams of Egypt.(MD)’
26 “Have you not heard?
Long ago I ordained(ME) it.
In days of old I planned(MF) it;
now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
into piles of stone.(MG)
27 Their people, drained of power,
are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,
like grass(MH) sprouting on the roof,(MI)
scorched[k] before it grows up.
28 “But I know where you are
and when you come and go(MJ)
and how you rage(MK) against me.
29 Because you rage against me
and because your insolence(ML) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(MM) in your nose(MN)
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
by the way you came.(MO)
30 “This will be the sign(MP) for you, Hezekiah:
“This year(MQ) you will eat what grows by itself,
and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year(MR) sow and reap,
plant vineyards(MS) and eat their fruit.(MT)
31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
will take root(MU) below and bear fruit(MV) above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(MW)
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(MX)
The zeal(MY) of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
33 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city(MZ)
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp(NA) against it.
34 By the way that he came he will return;(NB)
he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
35 “I will defend(NC) this city and save it,
for my sake(ND) and for the sake of David(NE) my servant!”
36 Then the angel(NF) of the Lord went out and put to death(NG) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian(NH) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib(NI) king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh(NJ) and stayed there.
38 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple(NK) of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat.(NL) And Esarhaddon(NM) his son succeeded him as king.(NN)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 33:6 Or is a treasure from him
- Isaiah 33:8 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text / the cities
- Isaiah 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.
- Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
- Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
- Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
- Isaiah 36:9 Or charioteers
- Isaiah 37:9 That is, the upper Nile region
- Isaiah 37:20 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:19); Masoretic Text you alone are the Lord
- Isaiah 37:25 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have in foreign lands.
- Isaiah 37:27 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text roof / and terraced fields
Isaiah 32-37
King James Version
Isaiah 32-37
King James Version
32 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
33 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21 But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
34 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
35 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
36 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
37 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,
16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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