Isaiah 37:21-35
International Standard Version
God’s Answer
21 Then Amoz’s son Isaiah sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, to whom you prayed[a] concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 22 This is the message that the Lord has spoken in opposition to him:
“‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion
despises and mocks you;
the Daughter of Jerusalem—
she tosses her head behind you as you flee.
23 Whom have you insulted and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your messengers[b] you have insulted the Lord,
and you have said,
“With my many chariots
I have climbed the heights of mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its pines;
I reached its remotest heights,
the most verdant of its forests.
25 I myself dug wells[c]
and drank foreign[d] waters;
with the soles of my feet
I dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
26 “‘Didn’t you hear
how in the distant past I decided to do it,
how[e] I planned from days of old?
Now I’ve made it happen—
that fortified cities become devastated, besieged heaps.[f]
27 Their inhabitants are devoid of power,
and are terrified and put to shame.
They’ve become like plants in the field,
like[g] green shoots,
like grass on rooftops,
scorched by the east wind.[h]
28 “‘I know when you rise up
and[i] when you sit down,
your comings and goings—
and how you’ve become enraged at me.
29 Your insolence[j] has reached my ears,
so I’ll put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,[k]
and I’ll make you turn back on the road
by which you came.
30 “And this will be your sign, Hezekiah:[l] Eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 Then the ones belonging to the house of Judah who have escaped will gather,[m] and those who are found[n] will take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 For a remnant will come out of Zion,[o] and a band of survivors from Jerusalem.[p] The zeal of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies will accomplish this.
33 “Therefore this what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He won’t enter this city, build up a siege ramp against it, shoot an arrow here, or threaten it with a shield.[q] 34 By the same way that he came, he will return; he won’t enter this city,’ declares the Lord, 35 ‘because I will defend this city and deliver[r] it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!’”
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- Isaiah 37:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because you prayed to me; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 37:24 Lit. servants
- Isaiah 37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads dug; LXX reads appointed
- Isaiah 37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack foreign
- Isaiah 37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and how
- Isaiah 37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads you should make fortified cities crash into ruined heaps
- Isaiah 37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and like
- Isaiah 37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and a field before the standing grain
- Isaiah 37:28 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack when you rise up and
- Isaiah 37:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because your raging against me and your insolence; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 37:29 Lit. lips; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lip
- Isaiah 37:30 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks Hezekiah
- Isaiah 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads be increased
- Isaiah 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and the remainder; cf. LXX
- Isaiah 37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Jerusalem
- Isaiah 37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Mount Zion
- Isaiah 37:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads or shoot an arrow here, or threaten it with a shield, or build up a siege ramp against it
- Isaiah 37:35 Or save
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