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So it towered high
    above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long,
    from abundant water in its shoots.(A)

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11 The tree grew great and strong,
    its top reached to heaven,
    and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.

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Then he took a seedling from the land,
    placed it in fertile soil;
a plant[a] by abundant waters,
    he set it like a willow twig.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain

11 See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?(A) 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?(B) 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Laar, Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?”

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18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Has any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?(A) 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?(B)

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The Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you base this reliance of yours?(A)

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For he says:
“Are not my commanders all kings?(A)
Is not Calno like Carchemish?
    Is not Hamath like Arpad?
    Is not Samaria like Damascus?(B)
10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols
    whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,(C)
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols
    what I have done to Samaria and her images?”

12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he[a] will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.(D) 13 For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples
    and have plundered their treasures;
    like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.(E)
14 My hand has found, like a nest,
    the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened its mouth or chirped.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.12 Gk: Heb I

35 I have seen the wicked oppressing
    and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.[a](A)
36 Again I[b] passed by, and they were no more;
    though I sought them, they could not be found.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.35 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 37.36 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb he

They are like trees
    planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
    and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.(A)

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