So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, who said to them, “Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don’t be afraid(A) because of the words you have heard, which the king of Assyria’s attendants have blasphemed Me with.(B) I am about to put a spirit(C) in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”(D)

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That’s why King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah.

Isaiah Responds to Hezekiah

“Here is what to tell your master,” Isaiah told them. “This is what the Lord says: ‘Don’t be afraid of the words you’ve heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have insulted me. Watch this! I’m going to place an attitude[a] within him,[b] so that when he hears a certain report, he’ll return to his own country. Then I’ll have him cut down by the sword in his own land.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:7 Or to put a spirit
  2. Isaiah 37:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read put a spirit in him
  3. Isaiah 37:7 So MT LXX 1QIsaa corrector; 1QIsaa lacks vss. 5-7