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Isaías 36:12

Listen to Isaías 36:12
12 Pero el Rabsaces dijo: ¿Acaso me ha enviado mi señor para hablar estas palabras sólo a tu señor y a ti, y no a los hombres que están sentados en la muralla, condenados a comer sus propios excrementos y a beber su propia orina con vosotros?

Isaías 36:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 36:12

But Rabshakeh said, hath my master sent me to thy master, and
to thee, to speak these words?
&c.] That is, to them only, that he should use a language only understood by them: hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall;
and therefore it is proper to speak in a language which they understand, and to let them know that if they will not surrender up the city, but will attempt to hold out a siege, they must expect that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
suggesting that they must expect a close siege, which would not be broke up until the city was taken; the consequence of which would be such a famine, that they would be reduced to such extremities. The Jews have substituted other words in the margin, instead of those in the text, as more cleanly, and less offensive; for "dung" they put "excrement", and for "piss" they read "the waters of the feet"; and had we in our version put excrement and urine instead of these words, it would have been more decent.

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Isaías 36:12 In-Context

10 '¿He subido ahora sin el consentimiento del SEÑOR contra esta tierra para destruirla? El SEÑOR me dijo: "Sube contra esta tierra y destrúyela.'""
11 Entonces Eliaquim, Sebna y Joa dijeron al Rabsaces: Te rogamos que hables a tus siervos en arameo porque nosotros lo entendemos, y no nos hables en la lengua de Judá a oídos del pueblo que está sobre la muralla.
12 Pero el Rabsaces dijo: ¿Acaso me ha enviado mi señor para hablar estas palabras sólo a tu señor y a ti, y no a los hombres que están sentados en la muralla, condenados a comer sus propios excrementos y a beber su propia orina con vosotros?
13 El Rabsaces se puso en pie, gritó a gran voz en la lengua de Judá, y dijo: Escuchad las palabras del gran rey, el rey de Asiria.
14 Así dice el rey: "Que no os engañe Ezequías, porque él no os podrá librar;
Scripture taken from La Biblia de las Américas® (LBLA®), Copyright © 1986, 1995, 1997 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. https://www.LBLA.com

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