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1/And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, covered himself with sackloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2/And he sent Elakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the prieses, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of amoz.
3/and they said unto him. thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4/It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living god; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy god hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prater for the remnant that are left.
5/So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6/And Isaiah said unto them, thus shall ye to your master, thus saith the LORD ,Be no0t aftaid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7/Behold ,I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the ssword in his own land.
8/So Rabshaked returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that was departed from Lachish.
9/And when he heard say of tirhakah knng of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10/Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Let not they god in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11/Behold, thou hast heard what the kings Assyria have done to all lands, by deatroying them utterly : and shalt thou be delivered?
12/Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have deatroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the chilren of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13/Where id the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Separvaim. of Hena, and lvah?
14/And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and reed it: and Hezekiah went up into spread it before the LORD.
15/And Hezekiah prayed befote the LORD, and said ,O LORD God of Isreal, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16/LORD, bow donwn thine ear, and hear; open ,LORD,Thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath d\sent him to reproach the livimng God.
17/Of a ttuth,LORD the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18/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 heve festroyed them.
19/Now therefore. O LORD our god ,I beseech thee, save thou us put opf his hand , that all the kingoms that thou art the LORD god , even thou only.
20/then Isaiah the son Amoz sent to Heazekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Yhat whch thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Asyria I have heard.
21/This is the word that LORD hath spoken conerning him the virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee .
22/Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine etes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23/By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, Whith the multitude of my chatiots of the mountains, to the sided of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24/I have digged and drunk straege waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besiegeded places,
25/Hasr thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fened cities into ruinous heaps.
26/Therfore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confoudrd: they were as the grass o fthe field , and as the treen herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27/But I know thy abode , and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rege against me .
28/Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
29/And this shall be a sign unto thee, ye shall eat this year such thngs as grow of themselves , and in the second year that whch springth of the same; and in the third year sow ye and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof.
30/And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shakk yet again take toot downward , and hear fruit upward.
31/For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the do this.
32/Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city , nor shou an arrow there , nor came before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it .
33/By the way that he came , by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
34/for I will defend this city to save it, mine own sake, and for my servant David`s sake .
35/And ir came to pass that night that the angel of the LORD went out , and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred; and when they arose early in the morning, behold , they ewere all dead corpses.
36/So Sennachrib king Assyria departed, wwnt and returned ,and dwelt at Nineveh.
37/And ir came to pass , as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that sons smote him with the swotd: and they escaped into the land of Armenis. And Esarhddon his son reigned in his stead