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Then Isaiah the son of Amozsent word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thussays the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me aboutSennacheribking of Assyria,
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this is the word that the LORD has spokenagainst him: "She has despised you and mocked you, The virgindaughter of Zion; She has shaken her headbehind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
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"Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And againstwhom have you raised your voice And haughtilylifted up your eyes? Against the HolyOne of Israel!
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"Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, 'With my manychariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotestparts of Lebanon; And I cutdown its tallcedars and its choicecypresses. And I will go to its highestpeak, its thickestforest.
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"Have you not heard? Longago I did it, From ancienttimes I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turnfortifiedcities into ruinousheaps.
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"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 greenherb, As grass on the housetops is scorchedbefore it is grown up.
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"Because of your ragingagainst 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 waywhich you came.
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"Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this yearwhatgrows of itself, in the secondyearwhatsprings from the same, and in the thirdyearsow, reap, plantvineyards and eat their fruit.
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"Therefore, thussays the LORDconcerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to thiscity or shoot an arrowthere; and he will not comebefore it with a shield, orthrow up a siegerampagainst it.