Bible in 90 Days
29 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city in which David dwelt! Add year to year. Let them kill lambs.
2 But I will bring Ariel into distress. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow. And it shall be to Me like Ariel.
3 And I will besiege you with a circle, and fight against you on a siege mount, and will cast up ramparts against you.
4 So shall you be humbled, and shall speak from the ground. And your speech shall be from the dust. Your voice, also, shall be from the ground, like one who has a spirit of divination. And your talking shall whisper from the dust.
5 Moreover, many of your strangers shall be like small dust. And the multitude of strong men shall be as chaff that passes away. And it shall be in a moment, suddenly.
6 You shall be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder, and shaking, and a great noise, a whirlwind, and a tempest, and a flame of a devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream, a vision by night, all those who make the war against it and strongholds against it and lay siege to it.
8 And it shall be like a hungry man dreams: And behold, he eats. And when he awakens, his soul is empty. Or like a thirsty man dreams: And lo, he is drinking. And when he awakens, behold, he faints. And his soul longs. So shall the multitude of all nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Wait and wonder. Blind yourself and be blinded. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not by strong drink.
10 For the LORD has covered you with a spirit of slumber and has shut your eyes. He has covered the Prophet and your chief Seers.
11 And all their visions have become to you as the words of a book that is sealed up, which they deliver to one who can read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 And the book is given to him who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot read.”
13 Therefore, the LORD said, “Because this people comes near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but has removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me was taught by the precept of men,
14 “therefore behold, I will again do a marvelous work in this people, a marvelous work and a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15 “Woe to those who seek deeply to hide counsel from the LORD. For their works are in darkness. And they say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’
16 “You pervert things. Shall the potter be thought the same as the clay? For shall the work say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me,’ or the thing formed say of him who fashioned it, ‘He has no understanding’?
17 “Is it not but a little while before Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel, and Carmel shall be counted as a forest?
18 “And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book. And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 “The meek in the LORD shall receive joy again. And the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 “For the cruel man shall cease and the scornful shall be consumed. And all who hurried to iniquity shall be cut off,
21 “who made a man sin with words and took him who reproved in the gate in a snare and made the just fall without cause.”
22 Therefore, thus says the LORD to the House of Jacob, He who redeemed Abraham: “Jacob shall not be confounded now, nor shall his face be pale now.
23 “But when he sees his children, the work of My Hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My Name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 “Then, those who erred in spirit shall have understanding. And those who murmured shall learn doctrine.”
30 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from Me, and cover with a covering, but not by My Spirit, so that they may lay sin upon sin.
2 “They walk forth to go down into Egypt to strengthen themselves with the strength of Pharaoh and trust in the shadow of Egypt and have not asked from My Mouth.
3 “But the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 “For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 “They shall all be ashamed of the people who cannot profit them or help or do them good but are a shame and a reproach.”
6 The burden of the beasts of the South: In a land of trouble and anguish—from where comes the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent—they shall bear their riches upon the shoulders of the colts, and their treasures upon the bunches of the camels, to a people that cannot profit.
7 “For the Egyptians are purposeless, and they shall help in vain. Therefore I have cried to her. Their strength is to sit still.
8 “Now go. Write it before them on a tablet, and note it in a Book, so that it may be for the last day, forever and ever,
9 “that it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that would not hear the Law of the LORD.
10 “They say to the Seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the Prophets, ‘Do not Prophesy to us right things. Speak flattering things to us. Prophesy errors.
11 “‘Depart out of the way. Go aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from us.’”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you have cast off this Word, and trust in violence, and wickedness, and stay thereupon,
13 “therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach that falls, a swelling in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in a moment.
14 “And its breaking is like the breaking of a potter’s pot, which is broken without pity. And in its breaking, there is not found a shard to take fire out of the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.”
15 For thus said the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel, “In rest and quietness shall you be saved. Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence.” But you would not.
16 For you have said, “No, but we will flee away upon horses!” Therefore, shall you flee. “We will ride upon the swiftest!” Therefore, your persecutors shall be swifter.
17 A thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one. At the rebuke of five shall you flee, till you are left as a ship mast upon the top of a mountain, and as a beacon upon a hill.
18 And, therefore, the LORD will wait, so that He may have mercy upon you. And, therefore, He will be exalted, so that He may have compassion upon you. For the LORD is the God of Judgment. Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
19 Surely a people shall dwell in Zion. In Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will certainly have mercy upon you at the voice of your cry. When He hears you, He will answer you.
20 And when the LORD has given you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, your rain shall be kept back no more. But your eyes shall see your rain.
21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.
22 And you shall pollute the covering of the images of silver, and the rich ornament of your images of gold, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth. And you shall say to it, “Get away!”
23 Then He shall give rain to your seed when you shall sow the ground, and bread from the increase of the Earth. And it shall be fat and rich. On that day, your cattle shall be fed in large pastures.
24 The oxen, also, and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean fodder, which is winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And upon every high mountain and upon every high hill there shall be rivers, streams of waters, on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.
26 Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun. And the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, and like the light of seven days, on the day that the LORD shall bind up the breach of His people and heal the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar. His Face is burning, and its burden heavy. His Lips are full of indignation, and His Tongue as a devouring fire.
28 and His Spirit as a river that overflows up to the neck. It divides apart, to fan the nations with the fan of frivolity. And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people that causes them to err.
29 There shall be a song to you, as in the night (when a solemn Feast is kept), and gladness of heart, as he who comes with a flute to go to the Mount of the LORD, to the Mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause His glorious Voice to be heard and shall declare the descent of His Arm with the anger of His Countenance, and flame of a devouring fire, with scattering and tempest and hailstones.
31 For with the Voice of the LORD shall Assyria be destroyed, who struck with the rod.
32 And in every place of punishment that the staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, there will be tambourines and harps. And in brandishing battles, He shall fight against it.
33 For Tophet is prepared of old. It is even prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large. It burns with fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, like a river of brimstone, kindles it.
31 Woe to those who go down into Egypt for help. They rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong. But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD.
2 But He is still wisest. Therefore, He will bring misery, and not turn back His Word. But He will arise against the house of the wicked, and against the help of those who work vanity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And when the LORD shall stretch out His Hand, the helper shall fall. And he who is helped shall fall. And they all shall fail.
4 For this has the LORD spoken to me, “As the lion or the lion’s whelp roars upon his prey, against whom a multitude of shepherds are called, he will not be afraid at their voice. Nor will he humble himself at their noise. So shall the LORD of Hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.
5 “As birds that fly, so shall the LORD of Hosts defend Jerusalem by defending and delivering, by passing through and preserving it.”
6 O you children of Israel, turn again, inasmuch as you are sunken deep in rebellion!
7 For on that day, every man shall cast out his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, sin which your hands have made.
8 “Then shall Assyria fall by the sword—not of man, nor shall the sword of man devour him—and he shall flee from the sword. And his young men shall faint.
9 “And he shall go in fear to his tower. And his princes shall be afraid of the standard,” says the LORD, Whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.”
32 Behold, a King shall reign in justice, and the princes shall rule in judgment.
2 A man shall be like a hiding place from the wind, and a refuge from the storm, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 The eyes of the seeing shall not be shut, and the ears of those who hear, shall listen.
4 And the heart of the foolish shall understand knowledge. And the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak distinctly.
5 No more shall a foolish person be called noble, nor the scoundrel generous.
6 But the fool will speak foolishness, and his heart will work iniquity, and do wickedly, and speak falsely against the LORD, to make the hungry soul empty, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 For the weapons of the scoundrel are wicked. He devises wicked counsels to undo the poor with lying words, and to speak against the poor in judgment.
8 But the generous man will devise generous things. And he will continue his generosity.
9 Rise up you women who are at ease! Hear my voice, you careless daughters! Listen to my words!
10 For many days and years, you women who are careless shall be in fear. For the vintage shall fail, and the harvests shall come no more.
11 Be astonished, you women who are at ease! Fear, O you careless women! Take off your clothes. Make yourselves bare and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 Men shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields and for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall grow thorns and briers —yea, upon all the houses of joy —in the city of rejoicing.
14 Because the palace shall be forsaken, the noise of the city shall be left. The tower and fortress shall be caves forever —the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —
15 until the Spirit is poured upon us from above and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the plenteous field is counted as a forest.
16 And judgment shall dwell in the desert. And justice shall remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of justice shall be peace, even the work of justice and quietness and assurance, forever.
18 And my people shall dwell in the tabernacle of peace, and in sure dwellings, and in safe resting places.
19 When it hails, it shall fall on the forest. And the city shall be humiliated.
20 Blessed are you who sow upon all waters and drive the feet of the ox and the donkey.
33 Woe to you who plunder, yet were not plundered, and does wickedly, yet they did not do wickedly against you. When you shall cease to plunder, you shall be plundered. When you shall stop doing wickedly, they shall do wickedly against you.
2 O LORD, have mercy upon us. We have waited for You. Be their Arm in the morning, our help also in time of trouble!
3 At the noise of the tumult, the people fled. At Your exalting, the nations were scattered.
4 And Your plunder shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillars. And He shall go against him like the leaping of grasshoppers.
5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
6 And there shall be stability of the times, strength, salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD shall be His treasure.
7 Behold, their messengers shall cry outside. And the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The paths are desolate. The wayfaring man ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He regards no man.
9 The Earth mourns and faints. Lebanon is ashamed and withered. Sharon is like a wilderness. And Bashan is shaken, and Carmel.
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up.
11 “You shall conceive chaff and bring forth stubble. The fire of your breath shall devour you.
12 “And the people shall be as the burning of lime. And they shall be burnt in the fire, as the cut thorns.
13 “Hear, you who are far off, what I have done! And you who are near, know My power!”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. A fear has come upon the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings?
15 He who walks in justice, and speaks righteous things —refusing gain of oppression, shaking his hands from the taking of gifts, stopping his ears from hearing of blood, and shutting his eyes from seeing evil —
16 he shall dwell on high. His defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Bread shall be given to him. His waters shall be sure.
17 Your eyes shall see the King in His Glory. They shall behold the land from far away.
18 Your heart shall contemplate fear: “Where is the scribe?” “Where is the receiver?” “Where is he who counted the towers?”
19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of dark speech that you cannot perceive, of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemn Feasts. Your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be removed. And its stakes can never be taken away. Nor shall any of its cords be broken.
21 For surely there the mighty LORD will be to us as a place of streams and broad rivers, whereby no ship with oars shall pass. Nor shall a great ship pass thereby.
22 For the LORD is our Judge. The LORD is our Lawgiver. The LORD is our King. He will save us.
23 Your cords are loosened. They could not strengthen their mast well. Nor could they spread the sail. Then the prey shall be divided for a great plunder. The lame shall take away the prey.
24 And no inhabitant shall say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein shall have their iniquity forgiven.
34 Come near, you nations and hear! And listen, you people! Let the Earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all that proceeds from it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and wrath upon all their armies. He has destroyed them, delivered them to the slaughter.
3 And their slain shall be cast out. And their stink shall come up out of their bodies. And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of Heaven shall be dissolved. And the heavens shall be folded like a book. And all their hosts shall fall, as the leaf falls from the vine, and as it falls from the fig tree.
5 “For My sword shall be quenched in Heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, even upon the people of My curse, to judgment.”
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood. It prospers with the fat, with the blood of the lambs and the goats, with the fat of the kidneys of the rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the heifers with the bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made to prosper with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, the year of recompense for the judgment of Zion.
9 And its rivers shall be turned into tar, and its dust into brimstone. And its land shall be burning tar.
10 It shall not be quenched, night or day. Its smoke shall go up forever. It shall be desolate from generation to generation. No one shall pass through it, forever and ever.
11 But the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it. And the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12 Its nobles shall call to the kingdom and there shall be none. And all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And it shall bring forth thorns in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for serpents, and a court for unclean birds.
14 Also, the wild beasts of the desert shall meet the jackals there. And the wild goat shall cry to his companion. And the night demon shall rest there and shall find for herself a quiet dwelling.
15 There shall the owl make her nest and lay and hatch and gather them under her shadow. There shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with her mate.
16 Seek in the Book of the LORD and read. None of these shall fail. None shall want for a mate. For His Mouth has Commanded, and His very Spirit has gathered them.
17 And He has cast the lot for them. And His Hand has divided to them by line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation shall they dwell in it.
35 The desert and the wilderness shall rejoice. And the waste ground shall be glad and flourish as the rose.
2 It shall flourish abundantly and shall also greatly rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the beauty of Carmel and of Sharon. They shall see the Glory of the LORD, the excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen the weak hands and comfort the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who are fearful, “Be strong! Do not fear! Behold, your God comes with vengeance! God, with a recompense, He will come and save you!”
5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be lightened, and the ears of the deaf be opened.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as a deer. And the mute man’s tongue shall shout for joy. For waters shall break out in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
7 And the dry ground shall be as a pool, and the thirsty as springs of water. In the habitation of dragons, where they lay, shall be a place for reeds and rushes.
8 And there shall be a path and a way. And the way shall be called holy. The polluted shall not pass by it. But it shall be for those who walk in that way. And they, though fools, shall not err on it.
9 There shall be no lion. Nor shall noisy beasts ascend by it. Nor shall they be found there. So that the redeemed may walk.
10 Therefore, the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with praise. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness. And sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
36 Now, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, came up against all the strong cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the King of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish toward Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, in the path of the launderer’s field.
3 Then, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah (the steward of the house) and Shebna (the chancellor) and Joah (the son of Asaph, the recorder) came forth to him.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, “Please tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this, in which you trust?
5 “I tell you, surely your eloquence, counsel and strength are for war. On whom, then, do you trust, that you rebel against me?
6 “Lo, you trust in this broken staff of a reed, in Egypt, whereupon if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it, as is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.
7 “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is not that He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah took down and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?
8 “Now, therefore, give hostages to my lord, the king of Assyria. And I will give you two thousand horses (if you are able, on your part), to set riders upon them.
9 “For how can you despise any captain of the least of my lord’s servants and still put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 “And have I now come up without the LORD to this land, to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it’.”
11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language. For we understand it. And do not talk with us in the Jews’ tongue in front of the people who are on the wall.”
12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master, and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13 So Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, of the king of Assyria!
14 “Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you (for he shall not be able to deliver you)
15 ‘or let Hezekiah make you to trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city shall not be given over into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
16 ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah! For thus says the king of Assyria, “Make an appointment with me. And come out to me, so that every man may eat of his own vine, and every man of his own fig tree, and every man drink the water of his own well,
17 “until I come and bring you to a land like your own land, a land of wheat and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,
18 “lest Hezekiah deceives you, saying, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 “Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Or how have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 “Who is he among all the gods of these lands who has delivered their country out of my hand. And the LORD will deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?”’”
21 Then they kept silent. And did not answer him a word. For the king’s commandment was, saying, “Do not answer him.”
22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah (the steward of the house) and Shebna (the chancellor) and Joah (the son of Asaph, the recorder) to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
37 And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and came into the House of the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim (the steward of the house), and Shebna (the chancellor), with the elders of the priests, clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the Prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 And he said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and blasphemy. For the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
4 ‘If so be the LORD your God has heard the words of Rabshakeh—whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to rail on the living God, and to reproach him with words which the LORD your God has heard—then lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said to them, “Say this to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 “Behold, I will send a blast upon him. And he shall hear a noise and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah (for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish).
9 He also heard men say of Tirhakah, King of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah, King of Judah, saying, ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
11 ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands in destroying them. And shall you be delivered?
12 ‘Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden, who were at Telassar?
13 ‘Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?’”
14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And he went up into the House of the LORD. And Hezekiah spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,
16 “O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, Who dwells between the Cherubims. You are God—You alone—over all the kingdoms of the Earth. You have made Heaven and Earth.
17 “Incline Your Ear, O LORD, and hear. Open Your Eyes, O LORD, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to blaspheme the living God.
18 “It is true, O LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all lands, and their country,
19 “and have cast their gods in the fire. For they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood or stone. Therefore, they destroyed them.
20 “Now, therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the Earth may know that You only are the LORD.”
21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib, King of Assyria,
22 ‘this is the Word that the LORD has spoken against him, “The virgin, the Daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughed you to scorn. The Daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23 “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against Whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 “By your servants you have reproached the LORD, and said, ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its high cedars and its fair fir trees. And I will go up to the heights of its top, to the forest of its fruitful places.
25 ‘I have dug and drunk the waters. And with the soles of my feet I have dried all the rivers of Egypt.’
26 “Have you not heard how I have made it in ancient times, and have formed it long ago? And should I now bring it to pass that it be destroyed on ruinous heaps, as defensed cities,
27 “whose inhabitants have little power, and are afraid and confounded? They are like the grass of the field and green herbs, grass on the house tops, or grain blasted before it is grown.
28 “But I know your dwelling, and your going out, and your coming in, and your fury against Me.
29 “Because you rage against Me, and your tumult has come to My Ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nostrils, and my bridle in your lips, and will bring you back the same way you came.
30 “And this shall be a sign to you. This year, you shall eat whatever grows by itself, and the second year whatever grows without sowing. And in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.
31 “And the remnant that has escaped of the House of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32 “For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.
33 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it.
34 ‘By the same way that he came, he shall return, and not come into this city,’ says the LORD.
35 “For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant, David’s, sake.”’”
36 Then the Angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. So, when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, departed and went away and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And as he was in the temple, worshiping Nisroch, his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, killed him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
38 About that time Hezekiah was sick and near death. And the Prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Put your house in order. For you shall die and not live.’”
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
3 and said, “I beg you, LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5 “Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the LORD God of David, your father: “I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days.
6 “And I will deliver you out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and this city. For I will defend this city.
7 “And you shall have this sign from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:
8 “Behold, I will bring back the shadow of the sundial (by which it has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz, with the Sun) ten degrees backward.”’” So, the Sun reversed by ten degrees on the sundial of which it had gone down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah, King of Judah, when he had been sick and was recovered from his sickness:
10 “I said at the cessation of my days, ‘I shall go to the gates of the grave. I am deprived of the residue of my years.’
11 “I said, ‘I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living. I shall not see man anymore among the inhabitants of the world.
12 ‘My habitation has departed, and is removed from me, like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life, like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day to night You will make an end of me.
13 ‘I reckoned until the morning, but He broke all my bones like a lion. From day to night will You make an end of me.
14 ‘Like a crane, a swallow, so I chattered. I mourned as a dove. My eyes were lifted up on high. O LORD, it has oppressed me. Comfort me.
15 ‘What shall I say? For He has said it to me, and He has done it. I shall walk weakly in the bitterness of my soul all my years.
16 ‘O LORD, by these things You sustain life. And in these things is the life of my spirit, by which You cause me to dream and give me life.
17 ‘Behold, for peace I had bitter grief. But it was Your pleasure to deliver my soul from the pit of corruption. For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18 ‘For the grave cannot confess You. Death cannot praise You. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
19 ‘But the living, the living, he shall confess You, as I do this day. The father shall declare Your truth to the children.
20 ‘The LORD saves me. Therefore, we will sing my song all the days of our life in the House of the LORD.’”
21 Then Isaiah said, “Take a lump of dry figs and lay it upon the boil. And he shall recover.”
22 Also, Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up into the House of the LORD?”
39 At the same time, Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babel, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah. For he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad for them, and showed them the house of the treasures, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom, that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 Then came Isaiah the Prophet to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babel.”
4 Then he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
5 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the Word of the LORD of Hosts,
6 ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babel. Nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD.
7 ‘And your sons who shall proceed out of you, which you shall beget, they shall take away. And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babel.’”
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The Word of the LORD which you have spoken is good.” And he said, “For there is peace and truth in my days.”
40 “Comfort! Comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, so that her warfare is accomplished, and that her iniquity is pardoned. For she has received double from the LORD’s Hand for all her sins.”
3 A voice cries in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight a path for our God in the desert!
4 “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall be straight and the rough places level.
5 “And the Glory of the LORD shall be revealed. And all flesh shall see it together. For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”
6 A voice said, “Cry!” And he said, “What shall I cry? All flesh is grass and all its beauty as the flowers of the field.
7 “The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it. Surely, the people are grass.
8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God shall stand forever.”
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get yourself up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with power. And His Arm shall rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with His Arm and carry them in His Bosom and shall guide those with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in his fist, and counted heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the Earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains on a scale, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has instructed the Spirit of the LORD, or was His counselor, or taught Him?
14 Of whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the way of judgment, or taught Him knowledge, and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance. Behold, He takes away the isles as a little dust.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor its beasts sufficient for a Burnt Offering.
17 All nations are as nothing before Him. And they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity.
18 To whom, then, will you liken God? Or what likeness will you set up for Him?
19 The workman melts an image, or the goldsmith beats it out in gold, or the silversmith in silver plates.
20 Do not the poor choose a tree that will not rot for an oblation? He also seeks a cunning workman to prepare an image that shall not be shaken.
21 Know you nothing? Have you not heard it? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood it from the foundation of the Earth?
22 He sits upon the circle of the Earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent in which to dwell.
23 He brings the princes to nothing, makes the judges of the Earth as vanity,
24 as though they were not planted, as though they were not sown, as though their stock took no root in the Earth. For He but blew upon them and they withered. And the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.
25 “To whom now will you liken Me, that I should be like?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these things, and brings out their armies by number, and calls them all by names. By the greatness of His power and mighty strength nothing fails.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD. And my judgment is passed over by my God?”
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, has created the ends of the Earth? He neither faints nor is weary. There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He gives strength to him who faints. And to him who has no strength, he increases power.
30 Even the youth shall faint and be weary. And the young men shall stumble and fall.
31 But those who wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall ascend with wings, as the eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And they shall walk and not faint.
41 “Keep silent before me, O islands, and let the people renew strength. Let them come near. And let them speak. Let us come together into judgment.
2 “Who raised up justice from the East and called him to His Foot, gave the nations before him and subdued the kings? He gave them as dust to his sword, as scattered stubble to his bow.
3 “He pursued them and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 “Who has wrought and done it? He Who calls the generations from the beginning. I, the LORD, am the first. And with the last I am the same.
5 “The isles saw it and feared. The ends of the Earth were afraid, drew near and came.
6 “Every man helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, ‘Be strong.’
7 “So the workman comforted the refiner (he who struck with the hammer, and who struck the anvil) saying, ‘It is ready for soldering.’ And he fastened it with nails, so that it would not be moved.
8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, you, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend.
9 “For I have taken you from the ends of the Earth and called you before its chief and said to you, ‘You are My servant. I have chosen you and not cast you away.
10 ‘Fear not. For I am with you. Do not be afraid. For I am your God. I will strengthen you, and help you, and will sustain you with the right hand of My justice.’
11 “Behold, all those who provoke you shall be ashamed and confounded. They shall be as nothing. And those who strive with you shall perish.
12 “You shall seek them and shall not find them. The men of your strife, they shall be as nothing, and the men who war against you as a non-existent thing.
13 “For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Do not fear. I will help you.
14 ‘Do not fear, worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you,’ says the LORD, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 “Behold, I will make you a thresher, and a new threshing sled having teeth. You shall thresh the mountains and bring them to powder, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 “You shall fan them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirlwind shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD, shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 “When the poor and the needy seek water and there is none (their tongue fails for thirst), I the LORD will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 “I will open rivers on the tops of the hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness as a pool of water, and the wasteland as springs of water.
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