Isaiah 37:21-35
Lexham English Bible
God’s Answer
21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: ‘Because you have prayed to me concerning[a] Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him:
She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion;
she shakes her head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem.
23 Whom have you taunted and blasphemed,
and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward?
To the holy one of Israel!
24 By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord,
and you have said, “With my many chariots,[b]
I myself have gone up the height of the mountains,
to the remote areas of Lebanon.
And I cut off its tall cedars,[c]
the choicest of its junipers.
And I came to the height of its limit,
the forest of its orchard.[d]
25 I myself dug and drank waters,
and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet.”
26 Have you not heard from a long time ago?[e] I have made it
from days of primeval time, and I formed it.
Now I have brought it about,
and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones.
27 And their inhabitants are weak;[f]
they are dismayed, and they are ashamed;
they have become like plants[g] of the field,
and like greens of grass,
like grass on[h] the roofs
and a cultivated field before[i] the standing grain.
28 And I know your sitting down and your going out,
and your coming in, and your raging against[j] me.
29 Because you were enraged against[k] me,
and your noise[l] has come up to[m] my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bridle on your lips,
and I will turn you back
on the way by which you came.
30 And this shall be the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants[n] this[o] year, and in the second year self-seeded plants,[p] and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the remnant of the house of Judah that remain shall grow[q] roots[r] downwards and make fruit upwards.
32 For a remnant shall go out from Jerusalem
and survivors[s] from mountain Zion.
The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.’
33 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning[t] the king of Assyria:
‘He shall not come to this city,
and he shall not shoot an arrow there,
and he shall not meet it with a shield,
and he shall not heap a siege ramp up against her.
34 He shall return by the way that he came,
and he shall not come to this city,’
declares[u] Yahweh.
35 ‘And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.’”
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- Isaiah 37:21 Literally “to”
- Isaiah 37:24 Hebrew “chariot”
- Isaiah 37:24 Literally “the height of its cedars”
- Isaiah 37:24 Or “Carmel”
- Isaiah 37:26 Literally “distant”
- Isaiah 37:27 Literally “short of hand”
- Isaiah 37:27 Hebrew “plant”
- Isaiah 37:27 Or “of”
- Isaiah 37:27 Literally “before the face of”
- Isaiah 37:28 Literally “to”
- Isaiah 37:29 Literally “to”
- Isaiah 37:29 Or “complacency”
- Isaiah 37:29 Literally “in”
- Isaiah 37:30 Hebrew “plant”
- Isaiah 37:30 Literally “the”
- Isaiah 37:30 Hebrew “plant”
- Isaiah 37:31 Literally “add”
- Isaiah 37:31 Hebrew “root”
- Isaiah 37:32 Hebrew “survivor”
- Isaiah 37:33 Or “to”
- Isaiah 37:34 Literally “declaration of”
Isaiah 37:21-35
American Standard Version
21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head [a]at thee. 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice [b]fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field; 25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of [c]Egypt.
26 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as [d]a field of grain before it is grown up. 28 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me. 29 Because of thy raging against me, and because [e]thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 31 And [f]the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
33 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah. 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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- Isaiah 37:22 Hebrew after.
- Isaiah 37:24 Or, cypress-trees
- Isaiah 37:25 Or, defence. Hebrew Mazor.
- Isaiah 37:27 In 2 Kin. 19:26, grain blasted.
- Isaiah 37:29 Or, thy careless ease
- Isaiah 37:31 Hebrew the escaped of the house of Judah that remain.
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