Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 037
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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
HaShem
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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
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And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a
day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to
the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth
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It may be HaShem thy G-d will hear the words of Rab-shakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to taunt the living G-d, and will
rebuke the words which HaShem thy G-d hath heard; wherefore make prayer for the
remnant that is left.
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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah
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And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your
master: Thus saith HaShem: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard,
wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me
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Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
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So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish
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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'He
is come out to fight against thee.' And when he heard it, he sent messengers to
Hezekiah, saying
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'Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying:
Let not thy G-d in whom thou trustest beguile thee, saying: Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of Assyria
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my
fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
that were in Telassar
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Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
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And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of HaShem, and
spread it before HaShem
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And Hezekiah prayed unto HaShem, saying
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'O HaShem of hosts, the G-d of Israel, that sittest upon
the cherubim, Thou art the G-d, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth
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Incline Thine ear, O HaShem, and hear; open Thine eyes, O
HaShem, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt
the living G-d
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Of a truth, HaShem, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
all the countries, and their land
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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
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Now therefore, O HaShem our G-d, save us from his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art HaShem, even Thou
only.
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying:
'Thus saith HaShem, the G-d of Israel: Whereas thou hast prayed to Me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria
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this is the word which HaShem hath spoken concerning him:
The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee
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Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? And against whom
hast thou exalted thy voice? Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high, even
against the Holy One of Israel
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By thy servants hast thou taunted the L-rd, and hast 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 have cut down the tall cedars thereof,
and the choice cypress-trees thereof; and I have entered into his farthest
height, the forest of his fruitful field
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I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt
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Hast thou not heard? Long ago I made it, in ancient times
I fashioned it; now have I brought it to pass, yea, it is done; that fortified
cities should be laid waste into ruinous heaps
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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 corn before it is grown
up
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But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy raging against Me
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Because of thy raging against Me, and for that thine
uproar 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
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And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this
year that which groweth of itself, and in 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
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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of
mount Zion they that shall escape; the zeal of HaShem of hosts shall perform
this
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Therefore thus saith HaShem concerning the king of
Assyria: He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither
shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mound against it
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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and
he shall not come unto this city, saith HaShem
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For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake,
and for My servant David's sake.
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And the angel of HaShem went forth, and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword;
and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his
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Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 037
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