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19 : 1 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it,he tore his clothes andcovered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of theLord.
19 : 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests,covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
19 : 3 They said to him,Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
19 : 4 It may be that theLordyour God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sentto mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that theLordyour God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer forthe remnant that is left.
19 : 5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
19 : 6 Isaiah said to them,Say to your master,Thus says theLord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with whichthe servants of the king of Assyria havereviled me.
19 : 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so thathe shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make himfall by the sword in his own land.
19 : 8 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting againstLibnah, for he heard that the king had leftLachish.
19 : 9 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush,Behold, he has set out to fight against you.So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
19 : 10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah:Do not let your Godin whom you trust deceive you by promising thatJerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
19 : 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?
19 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed,Gozan,Haran, Rezeph, and the people ofEden who were in Telassar?
19 : 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?
19 : 14 Hezekiah receivedthe letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of theLordand spread it before theLord.
19 : 15 And Hezekiah prayed before theLordand said:OLord, the God of Israel,enthroned above the cherubim,you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
19 : 16 Incline your ear, OLord, and hear;open your eyes, OLord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sentto mock the living God.
19 : 17 Truly, OLord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
19 : 18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods,but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
19 : 19 So now, OLordour God, save us, please, from his hand,that all the kingdoms of the earth may know thatyou, OLord, are God alone.
19 : 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying,Thus says theLord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of AssyriaI have heard.
19 : 21 This is the word that theLordhas spoken concerning him:She despises you, she scorns you&emdash;the virgin daughter of Zion;shewags her head behind you&emdash;the daughter of Jerusalem.
19 : 22 Whom have youmocked andreviled?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes to the heights?Againstthe Holy One of Israel!
19 : 23 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,and you have said,With my many chariotsI have gone up the heights of the mountains,to the far recesses ofLebanon;I felled its tallest cedars,its choicest cypresses;I entered its farthest lodging place,its mostfruitful forest.
19 : 24 I dug wellsand drank foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streamsof Egypt.
19 : 25 Have you not heardthatI determined it long ago?I planned from days of oldwhatnow I bring to pass,that you should turn fortified citiesinto heaps of ruins,
19 : 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,are dismayed and confounded,and have becomelike plants of the fieldand like tender grass,like grass on the housetops,blighted before it is grown.
19 : 27 But I know your sitting downand your going out and coming in,and your raging against me.
19 : 28 Because you have raged against meand your complacency has come into my ears,I willput my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,andI will turn you back on the wayby which you came.
19 : 29 And this shall bethe sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
19 : 30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
19 : 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Ziona band of survivors.The zeal of theLordwill do this.
19 : 32 Therefore thus says theLordconcerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield orcast up a siege mound against it.
19 : 33 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares theLord.
19 : 34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sakeand for the sake of my servant David.
19 : 35 And that nightthe angel of theLordwent out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
19 : 36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived atNineveh.
19 : 37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god,Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.