Isaiah 39:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: 6 The time is coming when all that is in your house, everything that your ancestors have stored up until this day, shall be carried off to Babylon;[a] nothing shall be left, says the Lord.(A) 7 Some of your own descendants, your progeny, shall be taken and made attendants in the palace of the king of Babylon.”(B)
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- 39:6 Because Judah preferred to follow a pro-Babylonian policy, instead of trusting in the Lord, it would later be exiled to Babylon.
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