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Isaías 36:12

Listen to Isaías 36:12
12 Pero el comandante en jefe respondió:—¿Acaso mi señor me envió a decirles estas cosas solo a ti y a tu señor, y no a los que están sentados en el muro? ¡Si tanto ellos como ustedes tendrán que comerse su excremento y beberse su orina!

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 ¿Acaso he venido a atacar y a destruir esta tierra sin el apoyo del SEÑOR? ¡Si fue él mismo quien me ordenó: “Marcha contra este país y destrúyelo”!
11 Eliaquín, Sebna y Joa le dijeron al comandante en jefe:—Por favor, hábleles usted a sus siervos en arameo, ya que lo entendemos. No nos hable en hebreo, que el pueblo que está sobre el muro nos escucha.
12 Pero el comandante en jefe respondió:—¿Acaso mi señor me envió a decirles estas cosas solo a ti y a tu señor, y no a los que están sentados en el muro? ¡Si tanto ellos como ustedes tendrán que comerse su excremento y beberse su orina!
13 Dicho esto, el comandante en jefe se puso de pie y a voz en cuello gritó en hebreo:—¡Oigan las palabras del gran rey, el rey de Asiria!
14 Así dice el rey: “No se dejen engañar por Ezequías. ¡Él no puede librarlos!

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