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Isaiah, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his
clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's
house. {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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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, "Tell your master, 'Thus says the LORD,
"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 will hear news, and will return to his
own land. 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 news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has
come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers
to Hezekiah, saying, {37:10} "Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, 'Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you,
saying, "Jerusalem won't 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. Shall you be
delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which
my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, 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. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD's house, and spread it
before the LORD. {37:15} Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, {37:16}
"LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among 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, LORD,
and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of
Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. {37:18} Truly, LORD,
the kings of Assyria have destroyed 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, LORD our God, save us from his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the
LORD, even you only."
{37:21} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus
says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria, {37:22} this is the word which
the LORD 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? Against
whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high?
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 I
have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of
Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. 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 I
will dry up all the rivers of Egypt." {37:26} Have you not heard how I
have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have
brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified
cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. {37:27} Therefore their
inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They
were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the
grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
{37:28} But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in,
and your raging against me. {37:29} Because of your raging against me,
and because your arrogance has 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 will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the
second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year
sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. {37:31} The
remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward. {37:32} For out of Jerusalem a
remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The
zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.' {37:33} Therefore thus
says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to
this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it
with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. {37:34} By the way that
he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this
city,' says the LORD. {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 the LORD went out and struck one hundred and
eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose
early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. {37:37} So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh,
and stayed there. {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 and near death. Isaiah the
prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the
LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"
{38:2} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the
LORD, {38:3} and said, "Remember now, the LORD, 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 bitterly.
{38:4} Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, {38:5} "Go,
and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father,
"I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add
fifteen years to your life. {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 the LORD, that the LORD will
do this thing that he has spoken. {38:8} Behold, I will cause the
shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with
the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps
on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"
{38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and had recovered of his sickness.
{38:10} I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of
[1>]Sheol[<1].
I am deprived of the residue of my years."
{38:11} I said, "I won't see the LORD,
The LORD in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
{38:12} My dwelling is removed,
and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.
{38:13} I waited patiently until morning.
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
From day even to night you will make an end of me.
{38:14} I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed.
Be my security."
{38:15} What will I say?
He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
{38:16} Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them:
you restore me, and cause me to live.
{38:17} Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of
corruption;
for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
{38:18} For [2>]Sheol[<2] 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 shall make known your truth to the children.
{38:20} The LORD will save me.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the
days of our life in the house of the LORD.
{38:21} Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." {38:22} Hezekiah
also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the
LORD?"
{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 had recovered. {39:2} Hezekiah was pleased with
them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, 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 Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him,
"What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?"
Hezekiah said, "They have come from a country far from me, even from
Babylon."
{39:4} Then he asked, "What have they seen in your house?"
Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is
nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."
{39:5} Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of
Hosts: {39:6} 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your
house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will
be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says the LORD. {39:7}
'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall
father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"
{39:8} Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word which you have
spoken is good." He said moreover, "For there will be peace and truth
in my days."
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Footnotes:
[1] {38:10} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {38:18} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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