Isaiah 37 And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard (it), he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about him, and went up into the house of the Lord.

Ottley⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard (it), he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about him, and went up into the house of the Lord. ² And he sent Eliakim, the steward, and Shebna, the scribe, and the elders of the priests, with sackcloth about them, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and reproof, and anger; for the pang is come upon her that travaileth, and she hath not strength to bring forth. ⁴ The Lord God hear the words of Rabshakeh, with which the king of the Assyrians sent him to reproach the living God, and to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God hath heard; [and thou shalt pray to thy Lord] concerning these that are left. ⁵ And the servants of the king came to Isaiah; ⁶ And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your lord, Thus saith the Lord, Fear not thou for the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the envoys of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me. ⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and return to his land, and he shall fall by the sword in his land. ⁸ And Rabshakeh returned, and came upon the king besieging Libnah: and the king of the Assyrians heard ⁹ That Tirhakah, king of the Ethiopians, had gone out to besiege him; and when he heard it, he turned away, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given over into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. ¹¹ Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the earth, how they have destroyed it? ¹² Did the gods of the nations, they whom my fathers destroyed, deliver them? Gozan, and Haran, and [Rezeph], which are in the land of [Telassar]? ¹³ Where are the kings of Hamath, and of Arpad? and of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? ¹⁴ And Hezekiah took the book from the messengers, and opened it before the Lord. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying, ¹⁶ O Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world; thou hast made heaven and earth. ¹⁷ Hearken, O Lord; look upon us, O Lord, and see the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the living God. ¹⁸ For in truth, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and their country, ¹⁹ And cast their idols into the fire; for they were no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and destroyed them. ²⁰ But do thou, O Lord our God, save us out of their hand, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou alone art God. ²¹ And Isaiah the son of Amoz was sent to Hezekiah, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard the prayers which thou madest to me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians. ²² This is the word which God hath spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Zion despiseth thee and mocketh thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee. ²³ Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? or against whom hast thou lift up thy voice? what, hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel? ²⁴ For by messengers thou hast reproached the Lord; for thou saidst, By the multitude of my chariots have I gone up to the height of the mountains, and to the utmost parts of Lebanon, and have cut down the height of his cedar, and the beauty of his cypress, and have entered into the height of the portion of his forest, | ²⁵ And have made a mound, and have dried up waters, and every gathering of water. ²⁶ Hast thou not heard long since of these things that I have done? from ancient days have I ordained it, and now have I shown it forth, to make nations in strong places desolate, and them that dwell in strong cities. ²⁷ I slackened their hands, and they were withered up, and became as green grass upon house-tops, and as wild couch-grass. ²⁸ But now I know thy resting place, and thy going out, and thy coming in. ²⁹ But thy rage with which thou ragedst, and thy bitterness, have come up toward me, and I will put a muzzle on thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. ³⁰ And this is the sign to thee; eat, for this year, what thou hast sown, and in the second year that which is left; and in the third year sow and reap ye, and plant vineyards, and ye shall eat the fruit thereof. ³¹ And there shall be they that are left in Judah, they shall strike root downward, and bear seed upward. ³² For they that are left shall go forth from Jerusalem, and they that are saved from mount Zion; the jealousy of the Lord of Hosts will do this. ³³ Therefore thus saith the Lord against the king of the Assyrians, He shall not come into this city, nor cast a spear against it, nor bring up a shield against it, nor compass it with a trench, ³⁴ But by the way that he came, by it shall he return. Thus saith the Lord, ³⁵ I will hold a shield before this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for David my servant's sake. ³⁶ And there went forth an angel of the Lord, and destroyed out of the camp of the Assyrians an hundred and fourscore (and) five thousand; and (men) arising early found all the dead bodies. ³⁷ And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians turned, and departed, and dwelt at Nineveh. ³⁸ And as he was worshipping the god of his fathers in the house of Nisroch, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with swords; but they made good their escape into Armenia; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.