Isaiah 37

1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard , that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Yahuah. 2And he sent Eliakim, who over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and not strength to bring forth. 4It may be the Yahuah your Elohim will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and will reprove the words which the Yahuah your Elohim has heard: therefore lift up prayer for the remnant that is left. 5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus says the Yahuah, Be not afraid of the words that you hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with you. And when he heard , he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your Elohim, in whom you trustest, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11Behold, you hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall you be delivered? 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which in Telassar? 13Where the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Yahuah, and spread it before the Yahuah. 15And Hezekiah prayed unto the Yahuah, saying, 16O Yahuah of hosts, Elohim of Israel, that dwellest the cherubims, you the Elohim, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: you hast made heaven and earth. 17Incline your ear, O Yahuah, and hear; open your eyes, O Yahuah, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which has sent to reproach the living Elohim. 18Of a truth, Yahuah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, 19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 20Now therefore, O Yahuah our Elohim, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you the Yahuah, you only. 21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the Yahuah Elohim of Israel, Whereas you hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22This the word which the Yahuah has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23Whom hast you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast you exalted voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? against the Holy One of Israel. 24By your servants hast you reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, the forest of his Carmel. 25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. 26Hast you not heard long ago, I have done it; of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities ruinous heaps. 27Therefore their inhabitants of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were the grass of the field, and the green herb, the grass on the housetops, and blasted before it be grown up. 28But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me. 29Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you camest. 30And this a sign unto you, Ye shall eat year such as groweth of itself; and 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. 31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: 32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Yahuah of hosts shall do this. 33Therefore thus says the Yahuah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. 34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the Yahuah. 35For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. 36Then the angel of the Yahuah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they all dead corpses. 37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.