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down thine ear, and hear: open, L
ORD
, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib,
which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
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Of a truth, L
ORD
, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands,
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And 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.
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Now
therefore, O L
ORD
our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of
the earth may know that thou
art
the L
ORD
God,
even
thou only.
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel,
That
which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
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This
is
the
word that the L
ORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised
thee,
and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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Whom
hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted
thy
voice, and lifted up
thine eyes on high?
even
against the Holy
One
of Israel.
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By the messengers thou hast reproached
the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof,
and
the choice
fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders,
and into
the forest of his Carmel.
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I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers
of besieged places.
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Hast thou not heard long ago
how
I have done it,
and
of ancient times that I
have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities
into
ruinous heaps.
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Therefore 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 house
tops, and
as corn
blasted before it be grown up.
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But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
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Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up
into mine ears, therefore I will 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.
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And this
shall be
a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this
year such things as grow of themselves, 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 fruits thereof.
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And the
remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward.
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion:
the zeal of the L
ORD
of hosts
shall do this.
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Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield,
nor cast a bank against it.
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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
come into this city, saith the L
ORD
.
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For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and
for my servant David’s sake.
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And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the L
ORD
went out, and smote in the camp of
the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they
were
all dead corpses.
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
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