Dual Panel1And it came to pass, when king <04428> Hezekiah <02396> heard <08085> (8800) [it], that he rent <07167> (8799) his clothes <0899>_, and covered <03680> (8691) himself with sackcloth <08242>_, and went <0935> (8799) into the house <01004> of the LORD <03068>_.
2And he sent <07971> (8799) Eliakim <0471>_, which [was] over the household <01004>_, and Shebna <07644> the scribe <05608> (8802)_, and the elders <02205> of the priests <03548>_, covered <03680> (8693) with sackcloth <08242>_, to Isaiah <03470> the prophet <05030> the son <01121> of Amoz <0531>_.
3And they said <0559> (8799) unto him, Thus saith <0559> (8804) Hezekiah <02396>_, This day <03117> [is] a day <03117> of trouble <06869>_, and of rebuke <08433>_, and blasphemy <05007>_: for the children <01121> are come <0935> (8804) to the birth <04866>_, and [there is] not strength <03581> to bring forth <03205> (8800)_. {blasphemy: or, provocation}
4It may be <0194> the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> will hear <08085> (8799) all the words <01697> of Rabshakeh <07262>_, whom the king <04428> of Assyria <0804> his master <0113> hath sent <07971> (8804) to reproach <02778> (8763) the living <02416> God <0430>_; and will reprove <03198> (8689) the words <01697> which the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> hath heard <08085> (8804)_: wherefore lift up <05375> (8804) [thy] prayer <08605> for the remnant <07611> that are left <04672> (8737)_. {left: Heb. found}
5So the servants <05650> of king <04428> Hezekiah <02396> came <0935> (8799) to Isaiah <03470>_.
6And Isaiah <03470> said <0559> (8799) unto them, Thus shall ye say <0559> (8799) to your master <0113>_, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068>_, Be not afraid <03372> (8799) of <06440> the words <01697> which thou hast heard <08085> (8804)_, with which the servants <05288> of the king <04428> of Assyria <0804> have blasphemed <01442> (8765) me.
7Behold, I will send <05414> (8802) a blast <07307> upon him, and he shall hear <08085> (8804) a rumour <08052>_, and shall return <07725> (8804) to his own land <0776>_; and I will cause him to fall <05307> (8689) by the sword <02719> in his own land <0776>_.
8So Rabshakeh <07262> returned <07725> (8799)_, and found <04672> (8799) the king <04428> of Assyria <0804> warring <03898> (8737) against Libnah <03841>_: for he had heard <08085> (8804) that he was departed <05265> (8804) from Lachish <03923>_.
9And when he heard <08085> (8799) say <0559> (8800) of Tirhakah <08640> king <04428> of Ethiopia <03568>_, Behold, he is come out <03318> (8804) to fight <03898> (8736) against thee: he sent <07971> (8799) messengers <04397> again <07725> (8799) unto Hezekiah <02396>_, saying <0559> (8800)_,
10Thus shall ye speak <0559> (8799) to Hezekiah <02396> king <04428> of Judah <03063>_, saying <0559> (8800)_, Let not thy God <0430> in whom thou trustest <0982> (8802) deceive <05377> (8686) thee, saying <0559> (8800)_, Jerusalem <03389> shall not be delivered <05414> (8735) into the hand <03027> of the king <04428> of Assyria <0804>_.
11Behold, thou hast heard <08085> (8804) what the kings <04428> of Assyria <0804> have done <06213> (8804) to all lands <0776>_, by destroying them utterly <02763> (8687)_: and shalt thou be delivered <05337> (8735)_?
12Have the gods <0430> of the nations <01471> delivered <05337> (8689) them which my fathers <01> have destroyed <07843> (8765)_; [as] Gozan <01470>_, and Haran <02771>_, and Rezeph <07530>_, and the children <01121> of Eden <05729> which [were] in Thelasar <08515>_?
13Where [is] the king <04428> of Hamath <02574>_, and the king <04428> of Arpad <0774>_, and the king <04428> of the city <05892> of Sepharvaim <05617>_, of Hena <02012>_, and Ivah <05755>_?
14And Hezekiah <02396> received <03947> (8799) the letter <05612> of the hand <03027> of the messengers <04397>_, and read <07121> (8799) it: and Hezekiah <02396> went up <05927> (8799) into the house <01004> of the LORD <03068>_, and spread <06566> (8799) it before <06440> the LORD <03068>_.
15And Hezekiah <02396> prayed <06419> (8691) before <06440> the LORD <03068>_, and said <0559> (8799)_, O LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>_, which dwellest <03427> (8802) [between] the cherubims <03742>_, thou art the God <0430>_, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms <04467> of the earth <0776>_; thou hast made <06213> (8804) heaven <08064> and earth <0776>_.
16LORD <03068>_, bow down <05186> (8685) thine ear <0241>_, and hear <08085> (8798)_: open <06491> (8798)_, LORD <03068>_, thine eyes <05869>_, and see <07200> (8798)_: and hear <08085> (8798) the words <01697> of Sennacherib <05576>_, which hath sent <07971> (8804) him to reproach <02778> (8763) the living <02416> God <0430>_.
17Of a truth <0551>_, LORD <03068>_, the kings <04428> of Assyria <0804> have destroyed <02717> (8689) the nations <01471> and their lands <0776>_,
18And have cast <05414> (8804) their gods <0430> into the fire <0784>_: for they [were] no gods <0430>_, but the work <04639> of men's <0120> hands <03027>_, wood <06086> and stone <068>_: therefore they have destroyed <06> (8762) them. {cast: Heb. given}
19Now therefore, O LORD <03068> our God <0430>_, I beseech thee, save <03467> (8685) thou us out of his hand <03027>_, that all the kingdoms <04467> of the earth <0776> may know <03045> (8799) that thou [art] the LORD <03068> God <0430>_, [even] thou only.
20Then Isaiah <03470> the son <01121> of Amoz <0531> sent <07971> (8799) to Hezekiah <02396>_, saying <0559> (8800)_, Thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>_, [That] which thou hast prayed <06419> (8694) to me against Sennacherib <05576> king <04428> of Assyria <0804> I have heard <08085> (8804)_.
21This [is] the word <01697> that the LORD <03068> hath spoken <01696> (8765) concerning him; The virgin <01330> the daughter <01323> of Zion <06726> hath despised <0959> (8804) thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn <03932> (8804)_; the daughter <01323> of Jerusalem <03389> hath shaken <05128> (8689) her head <07218> at thee <0310>_.
22Whom hast thou reproached <02778> (8765) and blasphemed <01442> (8765)_? and against whom hast thou exalted <07311> (8689) [thy] voice <06963>_, and lifted up <05375> (8799) thine eyes <05869> on high <04791>_? [even] against the Holy <06918> [One] of Israel <03478>_.
23By <03027> thy messengers <04397> thou hast reproached <02778> (8765) the Lord <0136>_, and hast said <0559> (8799)_, With the multitude <07230> of my chariots <07393> (8675) <07393> I am come up <05927> (8804) to the height <04791> of the mountains <02022>_, to the sides <03411> of Lebanon <03844>_, and will cut down <03772> (8799) the tall <06967> cedar trees <0730> thereof, [and] the choice <04004> fir trees <01265> thereof: and I will enter <0935> (8799) into the lodgings <04411> of his borders <07093>_, [and into] the forest <03293> of his Carmel <03760>_. {By: Heb. By the hand of} {tall...: Heb. tallness, etc} {of his Carmel: or, and his fruitful field}
24I have digged <06979> (8804) and drunk <08354> (8804) strange <02114> (8801) waters <04325>_, and with the sole <03709> of my feet <06471> have I dried <02717> (8686) up all the rivers <02975> of besieged places <04693>_. {besieged: or, fenced}
25Hast thou not heard <08085> (8804) long ago <07350> [how] I have done <06213> (8804) it, [and] of ancient <06924> times <03117> that I have formed <03335> (8804) it? now have I brought <0935> (8689) it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste <07582> (8687) fenced <01219> (8803) cities <05892> [into] ruinous <05327> (8737) heaps <01530>_. {long...: or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps?}
26Therefore their inhabitants <03427> (8802) were of small <07116> power <03027>_, they were dismayed <02865> (8804) and confounded <0954> (8799)_; they were [as] the grass <06212> of the field <07704>_, and [as] the green <03419> herb <01877>_, [as] the grass <02682> on the housetops <01406>_, and [as corn] blasted <07711> before <06440> it be grown up <07054>_. {of small...: Heb. short of hand}
27But I know <03045> (8804) thy abode <03427> (8800)_, and thy going out <03318> (8800)_, and thy coming in <0935> (8800)_, and thy rage <07264> (8692) against me. {abode: or, sitting}
28Because thy rage <07264> (8692) against me and thy tumult <07600> is come up <05927> (8804) into mine ears <0241>_, therefore I will put <07760> (8804) my hook <02397> in thy nose <0639>_, and my bridle <04964> in thy lips <08193>_, and I will turn thee back <07725> (8689) by the way <01870> by which thou camest <0935> (8804)_.
29And this [shall be] a sign <0226> unto thee, Ye shall eat <0398> (8800) this year <08141> such things as grow <05599> of themselves, and in the second <08145> year <08141> that which springeth <07823> of the same; and in the third <07992> year <08141> sow <02232> (8798) ye, and reap <07114> (8798)_, and plant <05193> (8798) vineyards <03754>_, and eat <0398> (8798) the fruits <06529> thereof.
30And the remnant <07604> (8737) that is escaped <06413> of the house <01004> of Judah <03063> shall yet again <03254> (8804) take root <08328> downward <04295>_, and bear <06213> (8804) fruit <06529> upward <04605>_. {remnant...: Heb. escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth}
31For out of Jerusalem <03389> shall go forth <03318> (8799) a remnant <07611>_, and they that escape <06413> out of mount <02022> Zion <06726>_: the zeal <07068> of the LORD <03068> [of hosts (8675) <06635>_] shall do <06213> (8799) this. {they...: Heb. the escaping}
32Therefore thus saith <0559> (8804) the LORD <03068> concerning the king <04428> of Assyria <0804>_, He shall not come <0935> (8799) into this city <05892>_, nor shoot <03384> (8686) an arrow <02671> there, nor come before <06923> (8762) it with shield <04043>_, nor cast <08210> (8799) a bank <05550> against it.
33By the way <01870> that he came <0935> (8799)_, by the same shall he return <07725> (8799)_, and shall not come <0935> (8799) into this city <05892>_, saith <05002> (8803) the LORD <03068>_.
34For I will defend <01598> (8804) this city <05892>_, to save <03467> (8687) it, for mine own sake, and for my servant <05650> David's <01732> sake.
35And it came to pass that night <03915>_, that the angel <04397> of the LORD <03068> went out <03318> (8799)_, and smote <05221> (8686) in the camp <04264> of the Assyrians <0804> an hundred <03967> fourscore <08084> and five <02568> thousand <0505>_: and when they arose early <07925> (8686) in the morning <01242>_, behold, they [were] all dead <04191> (8801) corpses <06297>_.
36So Sennacherib <05576> king <04428> of Assyria <0804> departed <05265> (8799)_, and went <03212> (8799) and returned <07725> (8799)_, and dwelt <03427> (8799) at Nineveh <05210>_.
37And it came to pass, as he was worshipping <07812> (8693) in the house <01004> of Nisroch <05268> his god <0430>_, that Adrammelech <0152> and Sharezer <08272> his sons <01121> smote <05221> (8689) him with the sword <02719>_: and they escaped <04422> (8738) into the land <0776> of Armenia <0780>_. And Esarhaddon <0634> his son <01121> reigned <04427> (8799) in his stead. {Armenia: Heb. Ararat}