Hello, and welcome
to "His Words Are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer,
and today we're going to
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continue reading
together in the Book of Isaiah,
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but let's pray before we start.
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Dear, Heavenly Father,
thank You for Your love for us
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and for Your care of us.
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And thank You for the provisions
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that You give to
each of us on our journey.
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Thank You for the provision
of the word of life right now.
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Please, come and help
us to hear and understand
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the message You have
for each of us here today.
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We love You so much, and
thank You for loving us, amen.
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We're reading in the
Book of Isaiah in Chapter 36,
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and when we were last together,
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we've begun an account
where the king of Assyria
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had sent his representative
Rabshakeh unto King Hezekiah.
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And we're in the
middle of a dialogue
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where Rabshakeh is delivering
a message to Hezekiah.
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And we're going to pick
up in Isaiah 36 verse 7.
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"But if thou say to me,
We trust in the Lord our God,
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is it not he, whose high places
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and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away,
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and said to
Judah and to Jerusalem,
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Ye shall worship
before this altar?
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Now therefore give
pledges, I pray thee,
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to my master
the king of Assyria,
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and I will give
thee two thousand horses,
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if thou be able on thy
part to set riders upon them.
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How then wilt
thou turn away the face
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of one captain of the
least of my master's servants,
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and put thy trust on Egypt
for chariots and for horsemen?
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And am I now come
up without the Lord
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against this land to destroy it?
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The Lord said unto me,
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Go up against this
land, and destroy it.
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Then said Eliakim and
Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh,
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Speak, I pray
thee, unto thy servants
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in the Syrian
language, for we understand it.
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And speak not to us
in the Jews' language,
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in the ears of the
people that are on the wall.
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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my
master sent me to thy master
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and to thee to
speak these words?
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Hath he not sent me to the men
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that sit upon the wall,
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that they may
eat their own dung,
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and drink their
own piss with you?
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Then Rabshakeh stood,
and cried with a loud voice
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in the Jews' language,
and said, Hear ye the words
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to the great king,
the king of Assyria.
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Thus saith the king, Let
not Hezekiah deceive you,
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for he shall not be
able to deliver you.
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Neither let Hezekiah
make you trust in the Lord,
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saying, The Lord
will surely deliver us,
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this city shall not be delivered
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into the hand of
the king of Assyria.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah,
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for thus saith
the king of Assyria,
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Make an agreement
with me by a present,
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and come out to me, and
eat ye every one of his vine,
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and every one of his fig tree,
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and drink ye every one
the waters of his own cistern.
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Until I come and take you away
to a land like your own land,
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a land of corn and wine, a
land of bread and vineyards.
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Beware lest
Hezekiah persuade you,
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saying, the
Lord will deliver us.
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Hath any of the Gods of
the nations delivered his land
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out of the hand of
the king of Assyria?
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Where are the Gods
of Hamath and Arphad?
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Where are the
Gods of Sepharvaim?
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And have they delivered
Samaria out of my hand?
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Who are they among all
the Gods of these lands,
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that have delivered
their land out of my hand,
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that the Lord should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
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But they held their peace,
and answered him not a word,
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for the king's commandment
was saying, Answer him not.
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Then came Eliakim,
the son of Hilkiah,
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that was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe,
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and Joah, the son
of Asaph, the recorder,
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to Hezekiah with
their clothes rent,
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and told him the
words of Rabshakeh.
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Continuing with the
story in Isaiah Chapter 37,
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this is the King James Version.
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And it came to pass,
when King Hezekiah heard it,
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that he rent his clothes,
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and covered
himself with sackcloth,
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and went into the
house of the Lord.
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And he sent Eliakim,
who was over the household,
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and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests
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covered with sackcloth,
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unto Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz.
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And they said unto
him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
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This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke,
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and of blasphemy,
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for the children
are come to the birth,
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and there is not
strength to bring forth.
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It may be the Lord thy God
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will hear the
words of Rabshakeh,
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whom the king of
Assyria his master
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hath sent to
reproach the living God,
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and will reprove
the words which the Lord
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thy God hath heard,
wherefore lift up thy prayer
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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,
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Thus shall ye
say unto your master,
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Thus saith the Lord,
Be not afraid of the words
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that thou hast heard,
wherewith the servants
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of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Behold, I will
send a blast upon him,
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and he shall hear a rumor,
and return to his own land,
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and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land.
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So Rabshakeh returned,
and found the king of Assyria
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warring against
Libnah, for he had heard
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that he was
departed from Lachish.
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And he heard say concerning
Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
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He is come forth
to make war with thee.
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And when he heard it, he
sent messengers to Hezekiah
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saying, Thus shall ye
speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
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saying, Let not thy
God, in whom thou trustest,
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deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given
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into the hand of
the king of Assyria.
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Behold, thou hast heard
what the kings of Assyria
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have done to all lands
by destroying them utterly,
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and shalt thou be delivered?
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Have the Gods of the
nations delivered them
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which my fathers have destroyed,
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as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,
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and the children of
Eden which were in Telassar?
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Where is the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arphad,
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and the king of
the city of Sepharvaim,
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Hena, and Ivah?
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And Hezekiah received the letter
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from the hand of the
messengers, and read it.
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And Hezekiah went up
unto the house of the Lord,
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and spread it before the Lord.
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And Hezekiah prayed
unto the Lord, saying,
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O Lord of hosts, God of Israel,
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that dwellest
between the cherubims,
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thou art the
God, even thou alone,
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of all the
kingdoms of the earth.
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Thou hast made heaven and earth.
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Incline thine
ear, O Lord, and hear,
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open thine
eyes, O Lord, and see.
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And hear all the
words of Sennacherib,
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which hath sent to
reproach the living God.
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Of a truth, Lord,
the kings of Assyria
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have laid waste all the nations,
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and their countries.
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And have cast
their Gods into the fire,
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for they were no Gods,
but the work of men's hands,
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wood and stone, therefore
they have destroyed them.
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Now therefore, O Lord our
God, save us from his hand,
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that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know
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that thou art the
Lord, even thou only.
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Then Isaiah the son of
Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
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saying, Thus saith
the Lord God of Israel,
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Whereas thou hast prayed to me
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against
Sennacherib king of Assyria.
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This is the word which the Lord
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hath spoken
concerning him, the virgin,
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the daughter of
Zion, hath despised thee,
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and laughed thee to
scorn, the daughter of Jerusalem
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hath shaken her head at thee.
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Whom hast thou
reproached and blasphemed?
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And against whom hast
thou exalted thy voice,
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and lifted up
thine eyes on high?
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Even against the
Holy One of Israel.
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By thy servants hast
thou reproached the Lord,
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and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots
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am I come up to the
height of the mountains,
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to the sides of Lebanon,
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and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof,
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and the choice
fir trees thereof,
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and I will enter into
the height of his border,
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and the forest of his Carmel.
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I have digged, and drunk water,
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and with the sole of
my feet have I dried up
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all the rivers of
the besieged places.
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Hast thou not heard
long ago, how I have done it,
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and of ancient times,
that I have formed it?
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Now have I brought it to pass,
that thou shouldest be to lay
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waste defensed
cities into ruinous heaps.
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Therefore their
inhabitants were of small power,
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they were
dismayed and confounded,
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they were as the
grass of the field,
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and as the green herb, as
the grass on the housetops,
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and as corn blasted
before it be grown up.
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But I know thy
abode, and thy going out,
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and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
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Because thy rage
against me, and thy tumult,
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is come up into mine ears,
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therefore will I
put my hook in thy nose,
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and my bridle in thy
lips, and I will turn thee back
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by the way by which thou camest.
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And this shall
be a sign unto thee,
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Ye shall eat this year
such as groweth of itself,
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and the second year that
which springeth of the same,
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and in the third year sow ye,
and reap, and plant vineyards,
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and eat the fruit thereof.
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And the remnant that is
escaped of the house of Judah
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shall again take root downward,
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and bear fruit upward.
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For out of Jerusalem
shall go forth a remnant,
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and they that
escape out of mount Zion.
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The zeal of the Lord
of hosts shall do this.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord
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concerning the king of Assyria,
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He shall not
come into this city,
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nor shoot an arrow there,
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nor come before it with shields,
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nor cast a bank against it.
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By the way that he came,
by the same shall he return,
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and shall not come into
this city, saith the Lord.
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For I will defend this city
to save it for mine own sake,
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and for my servant David's sake.
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Then the angel of
the Lord went forth,
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and smote in the
camp of the Assyrians
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a hundred and
fourscore and five thousand.
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When they arose
early in the morning,
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behold, they
were all dead corpses.
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So Sennacherib king
of Assyria departed,
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and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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And it came to pass,
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as he was worshiping in
the house of Nisroch his God,
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that Adrammelech and Sharezer
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his sons smote
him with the sword,
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and they escaped
into the land of Armenia.
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And Esarhaddon his
son reigned in his stead."
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Continuing in Isaiah Chapter 38,
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this is the King James Version.
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"In those days was
Hezekiah sick unto death.
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And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him,
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and said unto him,
Thus saith the Lord,
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Set thine house in order,
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for thou shalt
die, and not live.
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Then Hezekiah turned
his face toward the wall,
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and prayed unto the Lord.
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And said, Remember
now, O Lord, I beseech thee,
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how I have walked
before thee in truth
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and with a perfect
heart, and have done that
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which is good in thy sight.
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And Hezekiah wept sore.
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Then came the word of
the Lord to Isaiah, saying.
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Go, and say to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord,
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the God of David thy
father, I have heard thy prayer,
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I have seen thy tears, behold,
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I will add unto
thy days fifteen years.
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And I will deliver thee
and this city out of the hand
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of the king of Assyria.
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And I will defend this city.
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And this shall be a
sign unto thee from the Lord,
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that the Lord will do
this thing that he hath spoken.
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Behold, I will bring
again the shadow of the degrees,
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which is gone down
in the sun dial of Ahaz,
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ten degrees backward.
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So the sun returned ten degrees,
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by which degrees
it was gone down.
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The writing of
Hezekiah king of Judah,
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when he had been sick,
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and was
recovered of his sickness.
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I was in the
cutting off of my days,
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I shall go to the
gates of the grave.
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I am deprived of
the residue of my years.
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I said, I shall
not see the Lord,
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even the Lord, in
the land of the living.
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I shall behold man no more
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with the
inhabitants of the world.
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Mine age is
departed, and is removed
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from me as a shepherd's tent.
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I have cut off
like a weaver my life,
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he will cut me off
with pining sickness,
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from day even to night
wilt thou make an end of me.
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I reckoned till
morning, that, as a lion,
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so will he break all my bones,
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from day even to night
wilt thou make an end of me.
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Like a crane or a
swallow, so did I chatter.
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I did mourn as a dove,
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mine eyes fail
with looking upward,
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O Lord, I am
oppressed, undertake for me.
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What shall I say? He
hath both spoken unto me,
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and himself hath done it.
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I shall go softly all my years
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in the bitterness of my soul.
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O Lord, by
these things men live,
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and in all these things
is the life of my spirit,
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so wilt thou recover
me, and make me to live."
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