<h3>Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold </h3>19 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant 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 of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Listen! I am going to put such a spirit in him that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword. ’” 8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. 9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver them: the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?” <h3>Hezekiah’s Prayer </h3> 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Give ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. 17 “It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by men’s hands. 19 Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.” <h3>Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall </h3> 20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:<poetry>“‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion <indent>despises you and mocks you.</indent> The Daughter of Jerusalem <indent>tosses her head as you flee.</indent> 22 <poetry>Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? <indent>Against whom have you raised your voice</indent> and lifted your eyes in pride? <indent>Against the Holy One of Israel!</indent> </poetry> 23 <poetry>By your messengers <indent>you have heaped insults on the Lord.</indent> And you have said, <indent>“With my many chariots </indent> I have ascended the heights of the mountains, <indent>the utmost heights of Lebanon.</indent> I have cut down its tallest cedars, <indent>the choicest of its pines.</indent> I have reached its remotest parts, <indent>the finest of its forests.</indent> </poetry> 24 <poetry>I have dug wells in foreign lands <indent>and drunk the water there.</indent> With the soles of my feet <indent>I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”</indent></poetry><poetry></poetry> 25 <poetry>“‘Have you not heard? <indent>Long ago I ordained it.</indent> In days of old I planned it; <indent>now I have brought it to pass,</indent> that you have turned fortified cities <indent>into piles of stone. </indent> </poetry> 26 <poetry>Their people, drained of power, <indent>are dismayed and put to shame.</indent> They are like plants in the field, <indent>like tender green shoots, </indent> like grass sprouting on the roof, <indent>scorched before it grows up.</indent></poetry><poetry></poetry> 27 <poetry>“‘But I know where you stay <indent>and when you come and go</indent> <indent>and how you rage against me.</indent> </poetry> 28 <poetry>Because you rage against me <indent>and your insolence has reached my ears,</indent> I will put my hook in your nose <indent>and my bit in your mouth,</indent> and I will make you return <indent>by the way you came.’</indent></poetry></poetry> 29 “This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah:<poetry>“This year you will eat what grows by itself, <indent>and the second year what springs from that.</indent> But in the third year sow and reap, <indent>plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</indent> 30 <poetry>Once more a remnant of the house of Judah <indent>will take root below and bear fruit above.</indent> </poetry> 31 <poetry>For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, <indent>and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. </indent></poetry>The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.</poetry> 32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:<poetry>“He will not enter this city <indent>or shoot an arrow here.</indent> He will not come before it with shield <indent>or build a siege ramp against it.</indent> 33 <poetry>By the way that he came he will return; <indent>he will not enter this city,</indent> declares the <smallCap>Lord.</smallCap> </poetry> 34 <poetry>I will defend this city and save it, <indent>for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”</indent></poetry></poetry> 35 That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. 37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold<cr>1</cr>

2 Kings 19:1

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore<cr>1</cr> his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.

He sent Eliakim<cr>1</cr> the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests,<cr>2</cr> all wearing sackcloth,<cr>3</cr> to the prophet Isaiah<cr>4</cr> son of Amoz.

2 Kings 19:2

They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point<cr>1</cr> of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.

2 Kings 19:3

It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule<cr>1</cr> the living God, and that he will rebuke<cr>2</cr> him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant<cr>3</cr> that still survives.”

2 Kings 19:4

When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,

2 Kings 19:5

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid<cr>1</cr> of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed<cr>2</cr> me.

2 Kings 19:6

Listen! I am going to put such a spirit in him that when he hears a certain report,<cr>1</cr> he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.<cr>2</cr>’”

2 Kings 19:7

When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,<cr>1</cr> he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.<cr>2</cr>

2 Kings 19:8

Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite<ft>1</ft> king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

2 Kings 19:9

“Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend<cr>1</cr> on deceive<cr>2</cr> you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’

2 Kings 19:10

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?

2 Kings 19:11

Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver<cr>1</cr> them: the gods of Gozan,<cr>2</cr> Haran,<cr>3</cr> Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

2 Kings 19:12

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?”<cr>1</cr>

2 Kings 19:13

2 Kings 19:14

Hezekiah received the letter<cr>1</cr> from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.

And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,<cr>1</cr> you alone<cr>2</cr> are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

2 Kings 19:15

Give ear,<cr>1</cr> O Lord, and hear;<cr>2</cr> open your eyes,<cr>3</cr> O Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.

2 Kings 19:16

“It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

2 Kings 19:17

They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods<cr>1</cr> but only wood and stone, fashioned by men’s hands.<cr>2</cr>

2 Kings 19:18

Now, O Lord our God, deliver<cr>1</cr> us from his hand, so that all kingdoms<cr>2</cr> on earth may know<cr>3</cr> that you alone, O Lord, are God.”

2 Kings 19:19

Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall<cr>1</cr><cr>2</cr>

2 Kings 19:20

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard<cr>1</cr> your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against<cr>1</cr> him:<pb/><poetry>“‘The Virgin Daughter<cr>2</cr> of Zion <indent>despises<cr>3</cr> you and mocks<cr>4</cr> you.</indent> The Daughter of Jerusalem <indent>tosses her head<cr>5</cr> as you flee.</indent>

2 Kings 19:21

Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed?<cr>1</cr> <indent>Against whom have you raised your voice</indent> and lifted your eyes in pride? <indent>Against the Holy One<cr>2</cr> of Israel!</indent>

2 Kings 19:22

By your messengers <indent>you have heaped insults on the Lord.</indent> And you have said,<cr>1</cr> <indent>“With my many chariots<cr>2</cr></indent> I have ascended the heights of the mountains, <indent>the utmost heights of Lebanon.</indent> I have cut down<cr>3</cr> its tallest cedars, <indent>the choicest of its pines.</indent> I have reached its remotest parts, <indent>the finest of its forests.</indent>

2 Kings 19:23

I have dug wells in foreign lands <indent>and drunk the water there.</indent> With the soles of my feet <indent>I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”</indent></poetry><pb/><poetry>

2 Kings 19:24

“‘Have you not heard?<cr>1</cr> <indent>Long ago I ordained it.</indent> In days of old I planned<cr>2</cr> it; <indent>now I have brought it to pass,</indent> that you have turned fortified cities <indent>into piles of stone.<cr>3</cr></indent>

2 Kings 19:25

Their people, drained of power,<cr>1</cr> <indent>are dismayed<cr>2</cr> and put to shame.</indent> They are like plants in the field, <indent>like tender green shoots,<cr>3</cr></indent> like grass sprouting on the roof, <indent>scorched<cr>4</cr> before it grows up.</indent></poetry><pb/><poetry>

2 Kings 19:26

“‘But I know<cr>1</cr> where you stay <indent>and when you come and go</indent> <indent>and how you rage against me.</indent>

2 Kings 19:27

Because you rage against me <indent>and your insolence has reached my ears,</indent> I will put my hook<cr>1</cr> in your nose <indent>and my bit<cr>2</cr> in your mouth,</indent> and I will make you return<cr>3</cr> <indent>by the way you came.’</indent></poetry>

2 Kings 19:28

“This will be the sign<cr>1</cr> for you, O Hezekiah:<pb/><poetry>“This year you will eat what grows by itself,<cr>2</cr> <indent>and the second year what springs from that.</indent> But in the third year sow and reap, <indent>plant vineyards<cr>3</cr> and eat their fruit.</indent>

2 Kings 19:29

Once more a remnant<cr>1</cr> of the house of Judah <indent>will take root<cr>2</cr> below and bear fruit above.</indent>

2 Kings 19:30

For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,<cr>1</cr> <indent>and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.<cr>2</cr></indent></poetry><pb/>The zeal<cr>3</cr> of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

2 Kings 19:31

“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:<pb/><poetry>“He will not enter this city <indent>or shoot an arrow here.</indent> He will not come before it with shield <indent>or build a siege ramp against it.</indent>

2 Kings 19:32

By the way that he came he will return;<cr>1</cr> <indent>he will not enter this city,</indent> declares the <smallCap>Lord.</smallCap>

2 Kings 19:33

I will defend<cr>1</cr> this city and save it, <indent>for my sake and for the sake of David<cr>2</cr> my servant.”</indent></poetry>

2 Kings 19:34

That night the angel of the Lord<cr>1</cr> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!<cr>2</cr>

2 Kings 19:35

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.<cr>1</cr> He returned to Nineveh<cr>2</cr> and stayed there.

2 Kings 19:36

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech<cr>1</cr> and Sharezer cut him down with the sword,<cr>2</cr> and they escaped to the land of Ararat.<cr>3</cr> And Esarhaddon<cr>4</cr> his son succeeded him as king.

2 Kings 19:37

 1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore  his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim  the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests,  all wearing sackcloth,  to the prophet Isaiah  son of Amoz. 3 They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the point  of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule  the living God, and that he will rebuke  him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant  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  of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed  me. 7 Listen! I am going to put such a spirit in him that when he hears a certain report,  he will return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword. ’” 8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,  he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.  9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite  king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend  on deceive  you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my forefathers deliver  them: the gods of Gozan,  Haran,  Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena or Ivvah?”  14 Hezekiah received the letter  from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,  you alone  are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Give ear,  O Lord, and hear;  open your eyes,  O Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. 17 “It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods  but only wood and stone, fashioned by men’s hands.  19 Now, O Lord our God, deliver  us from his hand, so that all kingdoms  on earth may know  that you alone, O Lord, are God.” 20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard  your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against  him: “‘The Virgin Daughter  of Zion despises  you and mocks  you. The Daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head  as you flee.  22 Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed?  Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One  of Israel!  23 By your messengers you have heaped insults on the Lord. And you have said,  “With my many chariots  I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down  its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.  24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”  25 “‘Have you not heard?  Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned  it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.   26 Their people, drained of power,  are dismayed  and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots,  like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched  before it grows up.  27 “‘But I know  where you stay and when you come and go and how you rage against me.  28 Because you rage against me and your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook  in your nose and my bit  in your mouth, and I will make you return  by the way you came.’ 29 “This will be the sign  for you, O Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself,  and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards  and eat their fruit.  30 Once more a remnant  of the house of Judah will take root  below and bear fruit above.  31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,  and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.  The zeal  of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. 32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.  33 By the way that he came he will return;  he will not enter this city, declares the Lord.  34 I will defend  this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David  my servant.” 35 That night the angel of the Lord  went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!  36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.  He returned to Nineveh  and stayed there. 37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech  and Sharezer cut him down with the sword,  and they escaped to the land of Ararat.  And Esarhaddon  his son succeeded him as king.

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