1And
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 the
LORD.
2And
he sent
Eliakim,
which 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.
3And
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.
4It
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 prayer
for the
remnant that
are left.
5So
the servants
of king
Hezekiah
came to
Isaiah.
6And
Isaiah said
unto them,
Thus shall
ye say to
your master,
Thus saith
the LORD, Be
not afraid
of the words
which thou
hast heard,
with which
the servants
of the king
of Assyria
have
blasphemed
me.
7Behold,
I will send
a blast upon
him, and he
shall hear a
rumour, and
shall return
to his own
land; and I
will cause
him to fall
by the sword
in his own
land.
8So
Rabshakeh
returned,
and found
the king of
Assyria
warring
against
Libnah: for
he had heard
that he was
departed
from
Lachish.
9And
when he
heard say of
Tirhakah
king of
Ethiopia,
Behold, he
is come out
to fight
against
thee: he
sent
messengers
again unto
Hezekiah,
saying,
10Thus
shall ye
speak to
Hezekiah
king of
Judah,
saying, Let
not thy God
in whom thou
trustest
deceive
thee,
saying,
Jerusalem
shall not be
delivered
into the
hand of the
king of
Assyria.
11Behold,
thou hast
heard what
the kings of
Assyria have
done to all
lands, by
destroying
them
utterly: and
shalt thou
be
delivered?
12Have
the gods of
the nations
delivered
them which
my fathers
have
destroyed; as Gozan,
and Haran,
and Rezeph,
and the
children of
Eden which were in
Thelasar?
13Where is the
king of
Hamath, and
the king of
Arpad, and
the king of
the city of
Sepharvaim,
of Hena, and
Ivah?
14And
Hezekiah
received the
letter of
the hand of
the
messengers,
and read it:
and Hezekiah
went up into
the house of
the LORD,
and spread
it before
the LORD.
15And
Hezekiah
prayed
before the
LORD, and
said, O LORD
God of
Israel,
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.
16LORD,
bow down
thine ear,
and hear:
open, LORD,
thine eyes,
and see: and
hear the
words of
Sennacherib,
which hath
sent him to
reproach the
living God.
17Of
a truth,
LORD, the
kings of
Assyria have
destroyed
the nations
and their
lands,
18And
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.
19Now
therefore, O
LORD our
God, I
beseech
thee, save
thou us out
of his hand,
that all the
kingdoms of
the earth
may know
that thou art the
LORD God, even thou
only.
20Then
Isaiah the
son of Amoz
sent to
Hezekiah,
saying, Thus
saith the
LORD God of
Israel, That which
thou hast
prayed to me
against
Sennacherib
king of
Assyria I
have heard.
21This is the
word that
the LORD
hath spoken
concerning
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.
22Whom
hast thou
reproached
and
blasphemed?
and against
whom hast
thou
exalted thy voice,
and lifted
up thine
eyes on
high? even against
the Holy One of
Israel.
23By
thy
messengers
thou hast
reproached
the Lord,
and hast
said, With
the
multitude of
my chariots
I am come up
to the
height of
the
mountains,
to the sides
of Lebanon,
and will cut
down the
tall cedar
trees
thereof, and the
choice fir
trees
thereof: and
I will enter
into the
lodgings of
his
borders, and
into the
forest of
his Carmel.
24I
have digged
and drunk
strange
waters, and
with the
sole of my
feet have I
dried up all
the rivers
of besieged
places.
25Hast
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
fenced
cities into ruinous
heaps.
26Therefore
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
corn blasted
before it be
grown up.
27But
I know thy
abode, and
thy going
out, and thy
coming in,
and thy rage
against me.
28Because
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.
29And
this shall
be a
sign unto
thee, Ye
shall eat
this year
such things
as grow of
themselves,
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
fruits
thereof.
30And
the remnant
that is
escaped of
the house of
Judah shall
yet again
take root
downward,
and bear
fruit
upward.
31For
out of
Jerusalem
shall go
forth a
remnant, and
they that
escape out
of mount
Zion: the
zeal of the
LORD of
hosts shall
do this.
32Therefore
thus saith
the LORD
concerning
the king of
Assyria, He
shall not
come into
this city,
nor shoot an
arrow there,
nor come
before it
with shield,
nor cast a
bank against
it.
33By
the way that
he came, by
the same
shall he
return, and
shall not
come into
this city,
saith the
LORD.
34For
I will
defend this
city, to
save it, for
mine own
sake, and
for my
servant
David's
sake.
35And
it came to
pass that
night, that
the angel of
the LORD
went out,
and smote in
the camp of
the
Assyrians an
hundred
fourscore
and five
thousand:
and when
they arose
early in the
morning,
behold,
they were all
dead
corpses.
36So
Sennacherib
king of
Assyria
departed,
and went and
returned,
and dwelt at
Nineveh.
37And
it came to
pass, as he
was
worshipping
in the house
of Nisroch
his god,
that
Adrammelech
and Sharezer
his sons
smote him
with the
sword: and
they escaped
into the
land of
Armenia. And
Esarhaddon
his son
reigned in
his stead.