2 Kings 19:20-34
Legacy Standard Bible
Isaiah Speaks of Sennacherib’s Fall
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, (A)I have heard you.’ 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,
(B)The virgin daughter of Zion;
She (C)has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!
22 Whom have you [a](D)reproached and (E)blasphemed?
And against whom have you heightened your voice,
And [b]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the (F)Holy One of Israel!
23 (G)Through your messengers you have [c]reproached the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I [d]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I [e]entered its farthest lodging place, its (H)thickest forest.
24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I [f](I)dried up
All the rivers of [g]Egypt.”
25 ‘(J)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From days of old I formed it.
(K)Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 So their inhabitants were short of power,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were (L)as the plant of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.
27 But (M)I know your sitting down,
And your going out and your coming in,
And your raging against Me.
28 Because of your raging against Me,
And because your [h]presumptuousness has come up to My ears,
Therefore I (N)will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And (O)I will turn you back by the way which you came.
29 ‘Then this shall be (P)the sign for you: [i]you will eat this year what grows of its own accord, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 30 (Q)And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and (R)out of Mount Zion [j]survivors. (S)The zeal of [k]Yahweh will do this.
32 ‘Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, “(T)He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it. 33 (U)By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares Yahweh. 34 ‘(V)Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and (W)for My servant David’s sake.’”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Kings 19:22 Or defied, cf. 1 Sam 17:26
- 2 Kings 19:22 Lit on high
- 2 Kings 19:23 Or defied, cf. 1 Sam 17:26
- 2 Kings 19:23 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
- 2 Kings 19:23 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
- 2 Kings 19:24 As in some ancient versions; M.T. will dry up
- 2 Kings 19:24 Lit the besieged place
- 2 Kings 19:28 Or complacency
- 2 Kings 19:29 Lit eating
- 2 Kings 19:31 Lit those who escape
- 2 Kings 19:31 Some ancient mss Yahweh of hosts
2 Kings 19:20-34
Common English Bible
20 Then Isaiah, Amoz’s son, sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, Israel’s God, says: I have heard your prayer about Assyria’s King Sennacherib. 21 This is the message that the Lord has spoken against him:
The young woman, Daughter Zion, despises you and mocks you;
Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
22 Whom did you insult and ridicule?
Against whom did you raise your voice
and pridefully lift your eyes?
It was against the holy one of Israel!
23 You’ve insulted the Lord with your messengers;
you said, ‘I, with my many chariots,
have gone up to the highest mountains,
to the farthest reaches of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the best of its pine trees.
I have reached its most remote lodging place,
its best forest.
24 I have dug wells,
have drunk waters in foreign lands.[a]
With my own feet, I dried up
all of Egypt’s streams.’
25 Haven’t you heard?
I set this up long ago;
I planned it in the distant past!
Now I have made it happen,
making fortified cities
collapse into piles of rubble.
26 Their citizens have lost their power.
They are frightened and ashamed.
They’ve become like plants in a field,
tender green shoots,
the grass on rooftops,
burned up before it matures.
27 I know where you live,
how you go out and come in,
and how you rage against me.
28 And because you rage against me
and because your pride has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose,
and my bit in your mouth.
I will make you go back
the same way you came.
29 “Now this will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows by itself. Next year you will eat what grows from that. But in the third year, sow seed and harvest it; plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 30 The survivors of the house of Judah who have escaped will take root below and bear fruit above. 31 Those who remain will go out from Jerusalem, and those who survive will go out from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of heavenly forces[b] will do this.
32 “Therefore, this is what the Lord says about Assyria’s king: He won’t enter this city. He won’t shoot a single arrow there. He won’t come near the city with a shield. He won’t build a ramp to besiege it. 33 He will go back by the same way he came. He won’t enter this city, declares the Lord. 34 I will defend this city and save it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2 Kings 19:24 Heb uncertain
- 2 Kings 19:31 Qere, some Heb sources, and the parallel in Isa 32; Kethib lacks of heavenly forces.
Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org For Permission to Quote Information visit https://www.LSBible.org.
Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible