Isaiah, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house
of Yahweh. {37:2} He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {37:3} They said to
him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke,
and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there
is no strength to bring forth. {37:4} It may be Yahweh your God will
hear the words of Rabshakeh, 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. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that
is left. {37:5} So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
{37:6} Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says
Yahweh, Don't be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold,
I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return
to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own
land. {37:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. {37:9} He heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He
is come out to fight against you. When he heard it, he sent messengers
to Hezekiah, saying, {37:10} Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria. {37:11} Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be
delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which
my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden who were in Telassar? {37:13} Where is the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
of Hena, and Ivvah? {37:14} Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of
Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. {37:15} Hezekiah prayed to
Yahweh, saying, {37:16} Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, who sits
[above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the
kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. {37:17} Turn
your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold; and
hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living
God. {37:18} Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
all the countries, and their land, {37:19} 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. {37:20} Now
therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.
{37:21} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria, {37:22} this is the word which Yahweh has
spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you
and ridiculed you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at
you. {37:23} Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom
have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even]
against the Holy One of Israel. {37:24} By your servants have you
defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I
come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of
Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir
trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of
its fruitful field; {37:25} I have dug and drunk water, and with the
sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. {37:26} Have
you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient
times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be your to lay
waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. {37:27} 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 a field [of grain] before it is grown
up. {37:28} But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your
coming in, and your raging against me. {37:29} Because of your raging
against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears,
therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips,
and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. {37:30} This
shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of
itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in
the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit of it. {37:31} The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. {37:32} For out
of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who
shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this. {37:33}
Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come
before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. {37:34} By the
way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come
to this city, says Yahweh. {37:35} For I will defend this city to save
it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake. {37:36} The
angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians
one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the
morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. {37:37} So Sennacherib
king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
{37:38} It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword;
and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned
in his place.
{38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set
your house in order; for you shall die, and not live. {38:2} Then
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, {38:3} and
said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in
truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in
your sight. Hezekiah wept sore. {38:4} Then came the word of Yahweh to
Isaiah, saying, {38:5} Go, and tell Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your
tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. {38:6} I will
deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and
I will defend this city. {38:7} This shall be the sign to you from
Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: {38:8}
behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on
the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the
sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
{38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and was recovered of his sickness.
{38:10} I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates
of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
{38:11} I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living:
I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
{38:12} My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a
shepherd's tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the
loom:
From day even to night will you make an end of me.
{38:13} I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all
my bones:
From day even to night will you make an end of me.
{38:14} Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter;
I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward:
Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
{38:15} What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has
done it:
I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
{38:16} Lord, by these things men live;
Wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
You restore me, and cause me to live.
{38:17} Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness:
But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of
corruption;
For you have cast all my sins behind your back.
{38:18} For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you:
Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
{38:19} The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day:
The father to the children shall make known your truth.
{38:20} Yahweh is [ready] to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
{38:21} Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover. {38:22} Hezekiah
also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
Yahweh?
{39:1} At that time Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he
had been sick, and was recovered. {39:2} Hezekiah was glad of them,
and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the
gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his
armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in
his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
{39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him,
What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said,
They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon. {39:4} Then
said he, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All
that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my
treasures that I have not shown them. {39:5} Then said Isaiah to
Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies: {39:6} Behold, the days
are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your
fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh. {39:7} Of your sons who
shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and
they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. {39:8}
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you
have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in
my days.
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