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
Isaiah 37:21-35
Common English Bible
21 Then Isaiah, Amoz’s son, sent a message to Hezekiah: The Lord God of Israel says this: Since you prayed to me about Assyria’s King Sennacherib, 22 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.
23 Whom did you insult and ridicule?
Against whom did you raise your voice
and look on with disdain?
It was against the holy one of Israel!
24 With your servants, you’ve insulted the Lord;
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.
25 I have dug wells,
have drunk water in foreign lands.[a]
With my own feet, I dried up all of Egypt’s streams.”
26 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.
27 Their citizens have lost their power;
they are frightened and dismayed.
They’ve become like plants in a field,
tender green shoots,
the grass on rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
28 I know where you are,
how you go out and come in,
and how you rage against me.
29 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.
30 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, plant seed and harvest it; plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31 The survivors of Judah’s family who have escaped will put down roots and bear fruit above. 32 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 will do this.
33 Therefore, the Lord says this about Assyria’s king: He won’t enter this city. He won’t shoot a single arrow here. He won’t come near the city with a shield. He won’t build a ramp to besiege it. 34 He’ll go back by the same way he came. He won’t enter this city, declares the Lord. 35 I will defend this city and save it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.
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- Isaiah 37:25 Heb uncertain; DSS (1QIsaa) in foreign lands
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