even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth. 16Incline Thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open Thine eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to taunt the living God. 17Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 18and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 19Now therefore, O Lord our God, save Thou us, I beseech Thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the Lord God, even Thou only.'
20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying: 'Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Whereas thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard thee. 21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him:
- The virgin daughter of Zion
- Hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn;
- The daughter of Jerusalem
- Hath shaken her head at thee.
- 22Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed?
- And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice?
- Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high,
- Even against the Holy One of Israel!
- 23By the messengers thou hast taunted the Lord,
- And hast said: With the multitude of my chariots
- Am I come up to the height of the mountains,
- To the innermost parts of Lebanon;
- And I have cut down the tall cedars thereof,
- And the choice cypresses thereof;
- And I have entered into his farthest lodge,
- The forest of his fruitful field.
- 24I have digged and drunk
- Strange waters,
- And with the sole of my feet have I dried up
- All the rivers of Egypt.
- 25Hast thou not heard?
- Long ago I made it,
- In ancient times I fashioned it;
- Now have I brought it to pass,
- Yea, it is done; that fortified cities
- Should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.
- 26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
- They were dismayed and confounded;
- They were as the grass of the field,
- And as the green herb,
- As the grass on the housetops,
- And as corn blasted before it is grown up.
- 27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
- And thy raging against Me.
- 28Because of thy raging against Me,
- And for that thy tumult is come up into Mine ears,
- Therefore will I put My hook in thy nose,
- And My bridle in thy lips,
- And I will turn thee back by the way
- By which thou camest.
29And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
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