Isaías 36:12

12 Y dijo Rabsaces: ¿Me envió mi señor a ti y a tu señor, a que dijera estas palabras, o a los hombres, que están sobre el muro para comer su estiércol, y beber su 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.

Isaías 36:12 In-Context

10 ¿Y por ventura vine yo ahora a esta tierra para destruirla sin el SEÑOR? El SEÑOR me dijo: Sube a esta tierra para destruirla

11 Entonces dijeron Eliacim, Sebna y Joa a Rabsaces: Te rogamos que hables a tus siervos en lengua de Asiria, porque nosotros la entendemos; y no hables con nosotros en lengua judaica, oyéndolo el pueblo que está sobre el muro

12 Y dijo Rabsaces: ¿Me envió mi señor a ti y a tu señor, a que dijera estas palabras, o a los hombres, que están sobre el muro para comer su estiércol, y beber su orina con vosotros

13 Y se paró Rabsaces, y gritó a gran voz en lengua judaica, diciendo: Oíd las palabras del gran rey, el rey de Asiria

14 El rey dice así: No os engañe Ezequías, porque no os podrá librar