Isaiah 37:10-33

10“This is what you shall say to Hezekiah king of 1Judah: ‘2Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” 113Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved? 12Did the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed save them: 4Gozan, 5Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”

14Then Hezekiah took the 6letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and 7spread it out before the Lord. 15Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, 16“Lord of armies, God of Israel, 8who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the 9God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. 10You made heaven and earth. 1711Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see; and 12listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to 13taunt the living God. 18Truly, Lord, the 14kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands, 19and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but only the 15work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have 16destroyed them. 20But now Lord, our God, 17save us from his hand, so that 18all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, 19Lord, are God.”

21Then 20Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “She has shown contempt for you and derided you, The 21virgin 22daughter of Zion; The daughter of Jerusalem has 23shaken her head behind you!23Whom have you 24taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And 25haughtily 26raised your eyes? Against the 27Holy One of Israel!24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of 28Lebanon; And I cut down its tall 29cedars and its choice junipers. And I will come to its 30highest peak, its thickest 31forest.25I dug wells and drank waters, And 32with the sole of my feet I dried up All the canals of 33Egypt.’2634Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I 35planned it. Now 36I have brought it about That 37you would turn fortified cities into 38ruined heaps.27Therefore their inhabitants were 39powerless, They were shattered and put to shame; They were like the 40vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like 41grass on the housetops 42that is scorched before it has grown.28But I 43know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.29Because of your raging against Me And because your 44complacency has come up to My ears, I will put My 45hook in your nose And My 46bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back 47by the way that you came.

30“Then this shall be the sign for you: 48you will eat this year what 49grows of itself, in the second year what grows from the same, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31The 50survivors that are 51left of the house of Judah will again 52take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32For out of Jerusalem a 53remnant will go, and out of Mount Zion survivors. The 54zeal of the Lord of armies will perform this.”’

33“Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, nor heap up an 55assault ramp against it.