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When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
8 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. 9 When the king 1 heard concerning King Tirhakah of Ethiopia, 2 "See, he has set out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, 10 "Thus shall you speak to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?"
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Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then Hezekiah went up to the house of the
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Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the
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This is the word that the
She despises you, she scorns you--
virgin daughter Zion;
she tosses her head--behind your back,
daughter Jerusalem.
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"Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
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By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, "With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest retreat,
its densest forest.
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I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.'
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"Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
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while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
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"But I know your rising 3 and your sitting,
your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
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Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
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"And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
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for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out, and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the
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"Therefore thus says the
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That very night the angel of the