Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria
1I have heard.
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This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you—
2the virgin daughter of Zion; she
3wags her head behind you—the daughter of Jerusalem.
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“Whom have you
4mocked and
5reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against
6the Holy One of Israel!
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7By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said,
8‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of
9Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most
10fruitful forest.
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I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams
11of Egypt. ’
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“Have you not heard that
12I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what
13now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
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while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become
14like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
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“But I know your sitting down
15and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
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Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will
16put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and
17I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
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“And this shall be
18the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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19And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
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For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion
20a band of survivors.
21The zeal of the Lord will do this.
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“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or
22cast up a siege mound against it.
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23By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.
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24For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake
25and for the sake of my servant David. ”