²⁸ Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.

⁸ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, ^(A)“There will be peace and security in my days.”

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Israel's Futile Idolatry

²⁴ So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. ^(A)All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

^14 (A)even if these three men, ^(B)Noah, ^(C)Daniel, and ^(D)Job, were in it, ^(E)they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

^15 (F)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, ^(G)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, ¹⁶ even if these three men were in it, ^(H)as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but ^(I)the land would be desolate.

¹⁷ “Or ^(J)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, ^(K)and I cut off from it man and beast, ^18 (L)though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

¹⁹ “Or ^(M)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰ even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

²¹ “For thus says the Lord God: How much more ^(N)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, ^(O)sword, ^(P)famine, ^(Q)wild beasts, and ^(R)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

²⁰ Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and ^(A)you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.

¹⁹ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, ^(A)“The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”