Isaiah 37:21-35
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh’s Answer Through Isaiah
21 Then (A)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, 22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him:
“She has despised you and mocked you,
The (B)virgin (C)daughter of Zion;
She has (D)shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!
23 Whom have you [a](E)reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you heightened your voice
And [b]haughtily (F)lifted up your eyes?
Against the (G)Holy One of Israel!
24 Through your servants 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 (H)Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall (I)cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its [d]highest peak, its thickest (J)forest.
25 I dug wells and drank waters,
And (K)with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of [e]Egypt.’
26 (L)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From days of old I (M)formed it.
Now (N)I have brought it to pass,
That (O)you should devastate fortified cities into (P)ruinous heaps.
27 So their inhabitants were short of power;
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the (Q)plant of the field and as the green herb,
As (R)grass on the rooftops [f]is scorched before it rises.
28 But I (S)know your sitting down
And your going out and your coming in
And your raging against Me.
29 Because of your raging against Me
And because your [g](T)presumptuousness has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My (U)hook in your nose
And My (V)bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back (W)by the way which you came.
30 “Then this shall be the sign for you: [h]you will eat this year what (X)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. 31 And the (Y)surviving (Z)remnant of the house of Judah will again (AA)take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a (AB)remnant and out of Mount Zion [i]survivors. The (AC)zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.”’
33 “Therefore, thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘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 (AD)siege ramp against it. 34 (AE)By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ declares Yahweh. 35 ‘Indeed I will (AF)defend this city to save it (AG)for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”
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- Isaiah 37:23 Or defied
- Isaiah 37:23 Lit on high
- Isaiah 37:24 Or defied
- Isaiah 37:24 Lit farthest height
- Isaiah 37:25 Or the besieged place
- Isaiah 37:27 As in DSS and 2 Kin 19:26; M.T. as a plowed field
- Isaiah 37:29 Lit complacency
- Isaiah 37:30 Lit eating
- Isaiah 37:32 Lit those who escape
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