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Isaiah 37:21

& Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent {word} to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37:22

& this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: "She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken {her} head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

Isaiah 37:23

& "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised {your} voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:24

& "Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, `With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars {and} its choice cypresses. And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

Isaiah 37:25

& `I dug {wells} and drank waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.'

Isaiah 37:26

& "Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 37:27

& "Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were {as} the vegetation of the field and {as} the green herb, {As} grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Isaiah 37:28

& "But I know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:29

& "Because of your raging against Me And because your arrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

Isaiah 37:30

& "Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37:31

& ~"The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

Isaiah 37:32

& ~"For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

Isaiah 37:33

& "Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, `He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

Isaiah 37:34

& ~`By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.

Isaiah 37:35

& `For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake."'

Isaiah 37:36

& Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

Isaiah 37:37

& So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned {home} and lived at Nineveh.

Isaiah 37:21

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