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God Delivers Jerusalem and Sennacherib's Defeat

Isaiah 37:21-38

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Chapter 37
21 Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, concerning whom you have prayed to me, concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria." 22 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning you: "With you she has mocked you, the virgin daughter of Zion; behind you she has shaken her head, daughter of Jerusalem." 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes in pride, to the Holy One of Israel? 24 By the hand of your servants you have defied the Lord, and you said: "With the multitude of my chariots I have ascended the heights of mountains, the recesses of Lebanon, and I cut the heights of its cedars, the choice of its cypresses, and I came to the height of its utmost edge, the forest of Carmel." 25 I called and drank waters and cut off with the sole of my feet every Nile of Rock. 26 Have you not heard? Long ago I made it, from days of antiquity, and I formed it. Now I have brought it, and it was for devastations of rushing waves, fortified cities in distress. 27 And their inhabitants were short of hand; they were dismayed and ashamed. They were grass of the field and green growth of grass, hay of rooftops and scorched growth before it rises. 28 And I know your sitting and your going out and your coming, and your raging against me. 29 Because your raging against me and your arrogance have come up to my ears, I will put my ring in your nostrils and my bridle in your lips, and I will return you by the way by which you came. 30 And this is the sign for you: eat this year the aftergrowth, and in the second year the wild growth, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 And the escape of the House of Judah—the one remaining—will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and an escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 33 Therefore thus says the LORD to the king of Assyria: He shall not come to this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and he shall not bring a shield near, and he shall not pour out a siege ramp against it. 34 By the way by which he came, by it he will return, and he will not come to this city, says the LORD. 35 I will defend this city to save it for My sake and for the sake of David My servant. 36 And the angel of the LORD went out and struck in the camp of Assyria a hundred and eighty-five thousand men. And when they rose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria journeyed and went and dwelt in Nineveh. 38 And it was—he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his God—and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.