Isaiah 35:1-10
Dry deserts will be glad --- waste lands will celebrate and blossom with flowers.
Deserts will bloom everywhere and sing nature's songs. They will be as majestic as Mount Lebanon --- glorious as Mount Carmel or Sharon Valley. Everyone will witness the wonderful splendor of God.
Listen to this message for all who are weak, trembling, and worried:
“Cheer up! Don’t be fearful. Your God is coming to punish your enemies. God will take revenge on them and rescue you.”
The blind will see, and the ears of the deaf will hear.
The lame will leap as a deer; tongues once silent will shout. Water will flow through the desert.
Scorching sand will become a lake, and thirsty ground will flow with fountains. Grass will grow in wetlands, where packs of wild dogs once lived?
A good road will be there, and it will be called “God’s Sacred Highway.” It will be for God’s people; no one unclean will walk that road. And unbelievers can not travel on that highway.
No lions or other wild animals will come near that road --- only those the Lord has saved will travel it.
The people the Lord has saved will come back singing as they return to Zion. Happiness will be a crown, they will continuously wear. They will celebrate and praise because all sadness and fear will be taken away.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,
2 Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, [with] joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.
3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
5 Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,
6 Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.
7 And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.
8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself [is] by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
9 No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,
10 And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!
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Isaiah 36:1-22
In the 14th year of Hezekiah's reign over Judah, Sennacherib the Assyria Emperor, attacked the walled cities of Judah and conquered them.
Sennacherib ordered his chief official to go from Lachish to Jerusalem with a large army to demand King Hezekiah's surrender. The official occupied the road where the cloth makers work, by the ditch that brings water from the upper pool.
Three Judeans came out to meet him: the palace official, Eliakim son of Hilkiah; the court secretary, Shebna; and the official records keeper, Joah son of Asaph.
This Assyrian official told them that the emperor wished to know what made King Hezekiah so confident.
He demanded, “Do you imagine that words can replace military skill and might? Who do you think will help you rebel against Assyria?
You expect Egypt to help you; however, that would be like using a reed as a walking stick. It would break and would poke your hand. That's what Pharaoh of Egypt is like when anyone depends on him.”
The Assyrian official continued, “Or are you telling me that you are relying on the Lord your God? Didn't Hezekiah destroy the Lord's shrines and altars when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship at one altar only.
I'll bargain with you in the emperor's name. I will give you 2000 horses if you can find as many riders.
You're no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, yet you imagine the Egyptians will send you chariots and horsemen.
Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the Lord's help? The Lord himself told me to attack and destroy it.”
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah told the official, “Speak Aramaic to us. We understand it. Don't speak Hebrew; all the people upon the wall are listening.”
He replied, “Do you think you and the king are the only ones the emperor sent me to inform? No, I'm also telling those people sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their own poop and drink urine, just as you.”
Then the official rose and shouted in Hebrew, “Listen to what the emperor of Assyria is telling you.
He warns not to let Hezekiah deceive you. Hezekiah can't save you.
And don't let him persuade you to depend on the Lord. Don't think the Lord will save you and stop our Assyrian army from capturing your city.
Don't listen to Hezekiah! The emperor of Assyria commands you to come out of the city and surrender. You will all be allowed to eat grapes from your own vineyards and figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells...
This is the deal until the emperor resettles you in a country similar to your own, where there are vineyards to give wine and grain for baking bread.
Don't let Hezekiah kid you into thinking that the Lord will save you. Did the gods of any other nations save those countries from the emperor of Assyria?
Where are they now, the gods of Hamath, Arpadof, Sepharvaim, and Samaria?
When did any of these gods of all these countries ever save their country from our emperor? What makes you think the Lord can save Jerusalem?”
The citizens remained quiet, just as King Hezekiah had told them to; they did not say a word.
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief and reported to the king what this Assyrian official had said.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.
2 And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field,
3 and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.
4 And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?
5 I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?
6 `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed -- on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
7 `And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?
8 `And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.
9 And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
10 And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'
11 And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants [in] Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.'
12 And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men -- those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?'
13 And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice [in] Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:
14 Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;
15 and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
16 `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,
17 till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who among all the gods of these lands [are] they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.
In the 14th year of Hezekiah's reign over Judah, Sennacherib the Assyria Emperor, attacked the walled cities of Judah and conquered them.
Sennacherib ordered his chief official to go from Lachish to Jerusalem with a large army to demand King Hezekiah's surrender. The official occupied the road where the cloth makers work, by the ditch that brings water from the upper pool.
Three Judeans came out to meet him: the palace official, Eliakim son of Hilkiah; the court secretary, Shebna; and the official records keeper, Joah son of Asaph.
This Assyrian official told them that the emperor wished to know what made King Hezekiah so confident.
He demanded, “Do you imagine that words can replace military skill and might? Who do you think will help you rebel against Assyria?
You expect Egypt to help you; however, that would be like using a reed as a walking stick. It would break and would poke your hand. That's what Pharaoh of Egypt is like when anyone depends on him.”
The Assyrian official continued, “Or are you telling me that you are relying on the Lord your God? Didn't Hezekiah destroy the Lord's shrines and altars when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship at one altar only.
I'll bargain with you in the emperor's name. I will give you 2000 horses if you can find as many riders.
You're no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, yet you imagine the Egyptians will send you chariots and horsemen.
Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the Lord's help? The Lord himself told me to attack and destroy it.”
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah told the official, “Speak Aramaic to us. We understand it. Don't speak Hebrew; all the people upon the wall are listening.”
He replied, “Do you think you and the king are the only ones the emperor sent me to inform? No, I'm also telling those people sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their own poop and drink urine, just as you.”
Then the official rose and shouted in Hebrew, “Listen to what the emperor of Assyria is telling you.
He warns not to let Hezekiah deceive you. Hezekiah can't save you.
And don't let him persuade you to depend on the Lord. Don't think the Lord will save you and stop our Assyrian army from capturing your city.
Don't listen to Hezekiah! The emperor of Assyria commands you to come out of the city and surrender. You will all be allowed to eat grapes from your own vineyards and figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells...
This is the deal until the emperor resettles you in a country similar to your own, where there are vineyards to give wine and grain for baking bread.
Don't let Hezekiah kid you into thinking that the Lord will save you. Did the gods of any other nations save those countries from the emperor of Assyria?
Where are they now, the gods of Hamath, Arpadof, Sepharvaim, and Samaria?
When did any of these gods of all these countries ever save their country from our emperor? What makes you think the Lord can save Jerusalem?”
The citizens remained quiet, just as King Hezekiah had told them to; they did not say a word.
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief and reported to the king what this Assyrian official had said.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.
2 And the king of Asshur sendeth Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, unto the king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, and he standeth by the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field,
3 and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.
4 And Rabshakeh saith unto them, `Say ye, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, `Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?
5 I have said: Only, a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle: now, on whom hast thou trusted, that thou hast rebelled against me?
6 `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed -- on Egypt -- which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
7 `And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?
8 `And now, negotiate, I pray thee, with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to put for thee riders on them.
9 And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?
10 And now, without Jehovah have I come up against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up unto this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'
11 And Eliakim saith -- and Shebna and Joah -- unto Rabshakeh, `Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants [in] Aramaean, for we are understanding; and do not speak unto us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.'
12 And Rabshakeh saith, `Unto thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men -- those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water with you?'
13 And Rabshakeh standeth and calleth with a great voice [in] Jewish, and saith, `Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Asshur:
14 Thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;
15 and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
16 `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make ye with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,
17 till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
18 lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who among all the gods of these lands [are] they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
21 And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, `Do not answer him.'
22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of Rabshakeh.
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Isaiah 37:1-28
When King Hezekiah heard the results of the meeting, he ripped his robes and dressed in coarse sack cloth, as a sign of humility and mourning, and went to the Temple to pray.
Meanwhile he sent Eliakim his prime minister, and Shebna his royal scribe, and the older priests (all dressed in sackcloth) to the son of Amoz, Isaiah the prophet.
They brought him this message from Hezekiah:
“This is a day of problems, exasperation, and blasphemy. It is a serious time, like when a woman is having hard labor trying to give birth and the child does not come.
Perhaps the Lord God heard the blasphemy of the Assyrian ruler's emissary as he scoffed at the living God. God surely won’t let him get away with this. God will rebuke him for those words. Dear, Isaiah, pray for us who remain!”
So they took the king’s message to Isaiah.
Isaiah replied, “Tell King Hezekiah that the Lord says not to be concerned by this declaration and his blasphemy from the ambassador of the ruler of Assyria .
For a report from Assyria will reach that ruler that he needs to return home immediately, and he will return to his own country, where I will allow him to be murdered.”
So the Assyrian ambassador left Jerusalem and went to consult his Emperor, who had left Lachish and was attacking Libnah. But at this moment the Assyrian ruler received word that Tirhakah, crown prince of Ethiopia, was leading an army against him from the south. At hearing this, he sent messengers back to Jerusalem to Hezekiah with this message:
“Don’t allow the God you trust in fool you by promising that Jerusalem will not be captured by the Emperor of Assyria!
Just be reminded what has happened wherever Assyrian rulers have gone. They have squished everyone who has opposed them. Do wonder if you will differ?
Did their gods save the cities of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the people of Eden in Telassar? No, the Assyrian rulers completely destroyed them!
And don’t forget what happened to the kings of Hamath, Arpad, and those of cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah.”
As soon as King Hezekiah had read this letter, he went to the Temple and prostrated himself before the Lord.
He prayed, saying, “Dear Lord, Almighty God of Israel indwelling Guardian Angels, you ONLY are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You ONLY made heaven and earth. Hear me begging --see me pray. Observe at this letter from King Sennacherib, for he mocks the living God.
In truth, dear Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all those nations, just as the letter reads.
They threw their gods into bonfires; for they weren’t gods but mere idols, crafted by men from wood and stone. Certainly the Assyrians could destroy them.
Dear Lord our God, save us so that all the kingdoms of the earth will realize that you are the ONLY God.”
Then Amoz's son Isaiah, sent this message to King Hezekiah: “The Lord God of Israel says: This is my answer to your prayer against Sennacherib, Assyria’s ruler.
“The Lord replies to Sennacherib: My people—the helpless virgin daughter of Zion—laughs at you and scoffs and wags her head scornfully.
Who is it you scoff against, mock, criticize, direct your violence and pride? It's against the Holy One of Israel!
You have sent your emissaries to insult the Lord. You boast, ‘I came with my mighty army against the nations of the west. I cut down the tallest cedars and best cypress trees, conquered their highest mountains and decimated their lush forests.’
“You boast of wells you’ve dug in many conquered lands, and Egypt with all its armies is no roadblock to you!
But you have no clue that it was I who established all this from the beginning! I gave you all this power from the beginning! I have caused all this to happen as I planned—that you should smash walled cities into trash heaps.
This is why their people had so little power and were such easy prey for you. They were as helpless as the grass, as tender plants you trample down beneath your feet, as sod upon the housetops, burnt yellow by the sun.
But I know all about—your comings and goings and all you do—and the way you have raged against me.
Your anger against the Lord—I heard it all! I have put a hook in your nose and a bit in your mouth and led you back to your own land by the same path you arrived.”
God said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that I am the one who is delivering this city from the Assyrian ruler: This year he will abandon his siege. Though it is too late now to plant your crops, and you will have only self seeded grain this fall, this will provide enough seed for a small harvest next year. And in 2 years you will again reap bumper crops.
You who are left in Judah will take root again in your own soil and flourish and multiply.
For a remnant spread out from Jerusalem to repopulate the country. The power of the Lord Almighty will cause all this to happen.
“As for the this Assyrian ruler, his armies shall NOT enter Jerusalem, shoot their arrows there, march outside its gates, nor build up an earthen siege ramp against its walls.
He will return to his own land on the road he arrived and will not enter this city, says the Lord.
For My Own honor I will defend it as a remembrance of my servant David.”
That night the Angel of the Lord went out among camp of the Assyrians and killed 185,000 soldiers; when those left woke the following morning, all this death lay before them.
Then Emperor Sennacherib, returned to his own land (Nineveh).
While he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer assassinated him with swords; then they escaped to the land of Ararat. Then Esar-haddon his son became ruler.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,
2 and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,
3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
4 `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
5 And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
6 and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
7 Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
8 And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
9 And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
11 Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered!
12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Telassar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
14 And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
15 And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,
16 `Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
17 Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.
18 `Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,
19 so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.
20 And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] Jehovah, Thyself alone.'
21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur --
22 this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
25 I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
26 Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,
27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
28 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
29 Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.
30 -- And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.
32 For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
33 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it [with] shield, Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
34 In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,
35 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
36 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
37 And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.
38 And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
When King Hezekiah heard the results of the meeting, he ripped his robes and dressed in coarse sack cloth, as a sign of humility and mourning, and went to the Temple to pray.
Meanwhile he sent Eliakim his prime minister, and Shebna his royal scribe, and the older priests (all dressed in sackcloth) to the son of Amoz, Isaiah the prophet.
They brought him this message from Hezekiah:
“This is a day of problems, exasperation, and blasphemy. It is a serious time, like when a woman is having hard labor trying to give birth and the child does not come.
Perhaps the Lord God heard the blasphemy of the Assyrian ruler's emissary as he scoffed at the living God. God surely won’t let him get away with this. God will rebuke him for those words. Dear, Isaiah, pray for us who remain!”
So they took the king’s message to Isaiah.
Isaiah replied, “Tell King Hezekiah that the Lord says not to be concerned by this declaration and his blasphemy from the ambassador of the ruler of Assyria .
For a report from Assyria will reach that ruler that he needs to return home immediately, and he will return to his own country, where I will allow him to be murdered.”
So the Assyrian ambassador left Jerusalem and went to consult his Emperor, who had left Lachish and was attacking Libnah. But at this moment the Assyrian ruler received word that Tirhakah, crown prince of Ethiopia, was leading an army against him from the south. At hearing this, he sent messengers back to Jerusalem to Hezekiah with this message:
“Don’t allow the God you trust in fool you by promising that Jerusalem will not be captured by the Emperor of Assyria!
Just be reminded what has happened wherever Assyrian rulers have gone. They have squished everyone who has opposed them. Do wonder if you will differ?
Did their gods save the cities of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the people of Eden in Telassar? No, the Assyrian rulers completely destroyed them!
And don’t forget what happened to the kings of Hamath, Arpad, and those of cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah.”
As soon as King Hezekiah had read this letter, he went to the Temple and prostrated himself before the Lord.
He prayed, saying, “Dear Lord, Almighty God of Israel indwelling Guardian Angels, you ONLY are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You ONLY made heaven and earth. Hear me begging --see me pray. Observe at this letter from King Sennacherib, for he mocks the living God.
In truth, dear Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all those nations, just as the letter reads.
They threw their gods into bonfires; for they weren’t gods but mere idols, crafted by men from wood and stone. Certainly the Assyrians could destroy them.
Dear Lord our God, save us so that all the kingdoms of the earth will realize that you are the ONLY God.”
Then Amoz's son Isaiah, sent this message to King Hezekiah: “The Lord God of Israel says: This is my answer to your prayer against Sennacherib, Assyria’s ruler.
“The Lord replies to Sennacherib: My people—the helpless virgin daughter of Zion—laughs at you and scoffs and wags her head scornfully.
Who is it you scoff against, mock, criticize, direct your violence and pride? It's against the Holy One of Israel!
You have sent your emissaries to insult the Lord. You boast, ‘I came with my mighty army against the nations of the west. I cut down the tallest cedars and best cypress trees, conquered their highest mountains and decimated their lush forests.’
“You boast of wells you’ve dug in many conquered lands, and Egypt with all its armies is no roadblock to you!
But you have no clue that it was I who established all this from the beginning! I gave you all this power from the beginning! I have caused all this to happen as I planned—that you should smash walled cities into trash heaps.
This is why their people had so little power and were such easy prey for you. They were as helpless as the grass, as tender plants you trample down beneath your feet, as sod upon the housetops, burnt yellow by the sun.
But I know all about—your comings and goings and all you do—and the way you have raged against me.
Your anger against the Lord—I heard it all! I have put a hook in your nose and a bit in your mouth and led you back to your own land by the same path you arrived.”
God said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that I am the one who is delivering this city from the Assyrian ruler: This year he will abandon his siege. Though it is too late now to plant your crops, and you will have only self seeded grain this fall, this will provide enough seed for a small harvest next year. And in 2 years you will again reap bumper crops.
You who are left in Judah will take root again in your own soil and flourish and multiply.
For a remnant spread out from Jerusalem to repopulate the country. The power of the Lord Almighty will cause all this to happen.
“As for the this Assyrian ruler, his armies shall NOT enter Jerusalem, shoot their arrows there, march outside its gates, nor build up an earthen siege ramp against its walls.
He will return to his own land on the road he arrived and will not enter this city, says the Lord.
For My Own honor I will defend it as a remembrance of my servant David.”
That night the Angel of the Lord went out among camp of the Assyrians and killed 185,000 soldiers; when those left woke the following morning, all this death lay before them.
Then Emperor Sennacherib, returned to his own land (Nineveh).
While he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer assassinated him with swords; then they escaped to the land of Ararat. Then Esar-haddon his son became ruler.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And it cometh to pass, at the king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,
2 and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet,
3 and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.
4 `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
5 And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,
6 and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.
7 Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back unto his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
8 And Rabshakeh turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
9 And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 `Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
11 Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them -- and thou art delivered!
12 Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Telassar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'
14 And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and Hezekiah goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
15 And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,
16 `Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou [art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all kingdoms of the earth, Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.
17 Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.
18 `Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,
19 so as to put their gods into fire -- for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone -- and they destroy them.
20 And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou [art] Jehovah, Thyself alone.'
21 And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur --
22 this [is] the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.
23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.
24 By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
25 I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
26 Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities,
27 And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
28 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
29 Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in which thou camest.
30 -- And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] self-sown grain, And in the second year the spontaneous growth, And in the third year, sow ye and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31 And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.
32 For from Jerusalem goeth forth a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
33 Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it [with] shield, Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
34 In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,
35 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
36 And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and [men] rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
37 And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.
38 And it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
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Gunnar wrote:LittleNipper wrote:I'm here because God wants me to be here. If He didn't want me here He would prevent it.
What a lame excuse! Any of us here could just as easily claim the same thing. This whole thread is a massive, unconscionably and horribly inconsiderate waste of Dr. Shades' bandwidth at his expense.
Dr. Shades is GOD here.
Doc? Time to excommunicate this fool. Nip this LittlerNipper in the bud.
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Polygamy-Porter wrote:Gunnar wrote:[
What a lame excuse! Any of us here could just as easily claim the same thing. This whole thread is a massive, unconscionably and horribly inconsiderate waste of Dr. Shades' bandwidth at his expense.
Dr. Shades is GOD here.
Doc? Time to excommunicate this fool. Nip this LittlerNipper in the bud.
God is LORD of ALL. But the simple reality is that no one is twisting your little arm. Don't read along if you do not wish to. Don't consider the fact that the Bible is far superior to any other text ever written. Don't believe the fact that GOD created one man for one woman and never intended divorce, multiple partners, or gay partners...
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Isaiah 38:1-22
At this time Hezekiah became ill and dying. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him and told him, “The Lord says: Make arrangements, because you are dying.”
Hezekiah turned to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
“Lord, please remember that I have always obeyed you. I have given myself completely to you and have done what you said was right.” Then Hezekiah wept.
The Lord spoke his word to Isaiah: “Go to Hezekiah and tell him: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I've heard your prayer and seen you cry. So I will add 15 years to your life. I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.
“‘The Lord will do what he says. This is the sign from the Lord:
The sun makes a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz, but I will make it back up ten steps.’” So the shadow made by the sun reversed up the ten steps it had descended.
Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song:
I said, “I am middle aged. Do I have to go through death's door? Will I lose the rest of my life?”
I said, “I will not see the Lord among the living again. I will not again see the people alive upon the earth.
Like a shepherds tent my home has been dismantled and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver folds up and removes from the loom. In a day you brought me to this conclusion.
All night I cried loudly. Like a lion, he crushed all my bones. In one day you brought to this conclusion.
I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became heavy as I sought the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me.”
What can I say? The Lord informed me what would happen and then caused it to happen. I've had troubles in my soul, so now I will be humble all my life.
Lord, because of you, people exist. Because of you, my spirit lives; you made me well and let me live.
It was for my own good that I had such trials. Because you love me a lot, you didn't let me die but removed my sins far away.
The dead cannot praise you, nor sing praises to you. Those who die don’t trust you to assist them.
The people who live are the ones who praise you. They praise you as I praise you now. A father should tell his children that you provide help.
The Lord saved me, so we will play songs on stringed instruments in the Temple of the Lord throughout the days of our lives.
Then Isaiah said, “form a paste from figs and put it on Hezekiah’s boil. Then he will heal.”
Hezekiah then asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign? What will demonstrate that I go up to the Temple of the Lord?”
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
2 And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,
3 and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
4 And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
6 and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
7 And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.
8 Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
11 I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.
12 My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
13 I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
14 As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
16 Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,
17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
20 Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'
21 And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
22 And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
At this time Hezekiah became ill and dying. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him and told him, “The Lord says: Make arrangements, because you are dying.”
Hezekiah turned to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
“Lord, please remember that I have always obeyed you. I have given myself completely to you and have done what you said was right.” Then Hezekiah wept.
The Lord spoke his word to Isaiah: “Go to Hezekiah and tell him: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I've heard your prayer and seen you cry. So I will add 15 years to your life. I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.
“‘The Lord will do what he says. This is the sign from the Lord:
The sun makes a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz, but I will make it back up ten steps.’” So the shadow made by the sun reversed up the ten steps it had descended.
Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song:
I said, “I am middle aged. Do I have to go through death's door? Will I lose the rest of my life?”
I said, “I will not see the Lord among the living again. I will not again see the people alive upon the earth.
Like a shepherds tent my home has been dismantled and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver folds up and removes from the loom. In a day you brought me to this conclusion.
All night I cried loudly. Like a lion, he crushed all my bones. In one day you brought to this conclusion.
I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became heavy as I sought the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me.”
What can I say? The Lord informed me what would happen and then caused it to happen. I've had troubles in my soul, so now I will be humble all my life.
Lord, because of you, people exist. Because of you, my spirit lives; you made me well and let me live.
It was for my own good that I had such trials. Because you love me a lot, you didn't let me die but removed my sins far away.
The dead cannot praise you, nor sing praises to you. Those who die don’t trust you to assist them.
The people who live are the ones who praise you. They praise you as I praise you now. A father should tell his children that you provide help.
The Lord saved me, so we will play songs on stringed instruments in the Temple of the Lord throughout the days of our lives.
Then Isaiah said, “form a paste from figs and put it on Hezekiah’s boil. Then he will heal.”
Hezekiah then asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign? What will demonstrate that I go up to the Temple of the Lord?”
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
2 And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,
3 and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.
4 And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
6 and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
7 And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.
8 Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
10 `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
11 I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.
12 My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
13 I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
14 As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
16 Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,
17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
20 Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'
21 And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
22 And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
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Isaiah 39:1-8
Shortly afterwards, the Merodach-baladan king of Babylon (son of Baladan) sent Hezekiah a gift and his best wishes, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick and was presently cured.
Hezekiah enjoyed this and took the Babylonian ambassadors on a tour of the palace, showing them his treasure trove full of silver, gold, spices, and perfumes. He also took them into his jewel rooms, too, and showed them everything.
Then Isaiah the prophet came to the king and said, “What did they say? Where are they from?” “From far away in Babylon,” Hezekiah replied.
“How much have they seen?” asked Isaiah. And Hezekiah replied, “I showed them everything I own, all my priceless treasures.”
Then Isaiah said to him, “Listen to this message from the Lord Almighty:
“The time is coming when everything you have (all treasures stored up by your ancestors) will be carried away to Babylon. Nothing will remain.
Some of your own sons will become slaves, yes, eunuchs, in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
“OK,” Hezekiah replied. “Whatever the Lord says is good. At least there will remain peace in my lifetime!”
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.
2 And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah hath not shewed them.
3 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.'
4 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
5 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah of Hosts:
6 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;
7 and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.'
8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.'
Shortly afterwards, the Merodach-baladan king of Babylon (son of Baladan) sent Hezekiah a gift and his best wishes, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been very sick and was presently cured.
Hezekiah enjoyed this and took the Babylonian ambassadors on a tour of the palace, showing them his treasure trove full of silver, gold, spices, and perfumes. He also took them into his jewel rooms, too, and showed them everything.
Then Isaiah the prophet came to the king and said, “What did they say? Where are they from?” “From far away in Babylon,” Hezekiah replied.
“How much have they seen?” asked Isaiah. And Hezekiah replied, “I showed them everything I own, all my priceless treasures.”
Then Isaiah said to him, “Listen to this message from the Lord Almighty:
“The time is coming when everything you have (all treasures stored up by your ancestors) will be carried away to Babylon. Nothing will remain.
Some of your own sons will become slaves, yes, eunuchs, in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
“OK,” Hezekiah replied. “Whatever the Lord says is good. At least there will remain peace in my lifetime!”
Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 At that time hath Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, when he heareth that he hath been sick, and is become strong.
2 And Hezekiah rejoiceth over them, and sheweth them the house of his spices, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasures; there hath not been a thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah hath not shewed them.
3 And Isaiah the prophet cometh in unto king Hezekiah, and saith unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto thee?' And Hezekiah saith, `From a land afar off they have come unto me -- from Babylon.'
4 And he saith, `What saw they in thy house?' and Hezekiah saith, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there hath not been a thing that I have not shewed them among my treasures.'
5 And Isaiah saith unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Jehovah of Hosts:
6 Lo, days are coming, and borne hath been all that [is] in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Jehovah;
7 and of thy sons who come forth from thee, whom thou begettest, they take, and they have been eunuchs in a palace of the king of Babylon.'
8 And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.'
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Isaiah 40:1-31
Bring Comfort to comfort my people,” says God.
“Speak kindly to Jerusalem and tell her that the war is past. I have punished her in full for all her sins.”
Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, “Make way for the Lord through the wilderness; construct a straight, smooth road through the desert.
The valleys have been lifted. The mountains and hills have been mellowed down. The crooked paths straightened and the roads smoothed out. [This is likely a picture of the both the ORIGINAL Earth --- pre Flood --- and the future destiny of this planet during the Millennium]
The glory of the Lord will be seen by all mankind everywhere.” The Lord says this—it will happen.
6 The voice says, “Yell!” “What shall I yell?” Isaiah asked.
“Yell that man is like the grass that dies, and all his looks will wither like that of flowers.
The grass withers, the flower fades beneath God's breath. And so it is with fragile men.
The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God shall remain unchanged forever.”
Informer of good news, yell at Jerusalem from the mountaintops! Shout louder—fear not—inform the neigborhoods of Judah, “Your God is coming!”
Yes, the Lord God is coming with mighty power; he will rule with awesome strength. See, his reward is with him, to each as he has done.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will carry the lambs in his arms and gently lead the ewes with young.
Who else has cupped the seas in his hands and measured off the heavens with his ruler? Who else knows the exact weight all the earth and the mountains and the hills?
Who can advise the Spirit of the Lord to be His teacher or counsel Him?
Has God ever needed anyone’s advice? Did he need instruction as to what is right and best?
No, for all the peoples of the world are nothing in comparison with him—they are but a drop in the bucket, dust on the scales. He lifts up the islands as though they had no weight at all.
All of Lebanon’s forests do not contain sufficient fuel to consume a sacrifice large enough to honor Him. All its animals are not enough to offer to our God.
All the nations are as nothing to Him; in his eyes they are less than nothing—mere emptiness and froth.
How can we describe God? What can we compare him too?
Compare Him to an idol? An idol molded, overlaid with gold, and with silver chains around its neck?
The man too poor to buy expensive idols like that will find a tree without rot and hire a man to carve a face on it, and that’s his god—an immobile god!
Are you that ignorant? Are you so turned off by the words of God—the words He edited before the world began? Have you never heard or comprehended?
It is God who sits above the rounded earth. (The people below must seem to Him like mere insects!) He is the one who stretches out the heavens like a fabric and spreads this as He would a tent.
He dooms the great men of the world and brings them all to nothing.
They hardly get started, barely take root, when he blows on them and their work withers, and the wind carries them off like straw.
“With whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.
Look up into the heavens! Who created all the stars? As a shepherd leads his sheep, calling each by nicknames, and counts them to see that none are lost or strayed, so God does with stars and planets!
Jacob, Israel, how can you infer that the Lord doesn’t observe your trials and isn’t being fair?
Don’t you yet understand? Don’t you know by now that the everlasting God, the Creator of the entire earth, never grows faint or tired? None can fathom the depths of His understanding.
He extends strength to the tired, worn out, and the weak.
Even youths shall be exhausted, and the young men will all quit.
However, they that wait for the Lord shall regain their strength. They shall rise up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be tired; they shall walk and not faint.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.
2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.
3 A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
4 Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
5 And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen [it] have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a flower of the field:
7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people [is] grass;
8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
9 On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your God.'
10 Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before Him.
11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.
12 Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, [being] His counsellor, doth teach Him!
14 With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?
15 Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.
17 All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
18 And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?
19 The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
20 He who is poor [by] heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.
21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From] the foundations of the earth?
22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
24 Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.
25 And unto whom do ye liken Me, And [am] I equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is] strong in power) not one is lacking.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.
30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,
31 But those expecting Jehovah pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
Bring Comfort to comfort my people,” says God.
“Speak kindly to Jerusalem and tell her that the war is past. I have punished her in full for all her sins.”
Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, “Make way for the Lord through the wilderness; construct a straight, smooth road through the desert.
The valleys have been lifted. The mountains and hills have been mellowed down. The crooked paths straightened and the roads smoothed out. [This is likely a picture of the both the ORIGINAL Earth --- pre Flood --- and the future destiny of this planet during the Millennium]
The glory of the Lord will be seen by all mankind everywhere.” The Lord says this—it will happen.
6 The voice says, “Yell!” “What shall I yell?” Isaiah asked.
“Yell that man is like the grass that dies, and all his looks will wither like that of flowers.
The grass withers, the flower fades beneath God's breath. And so it is with fragile men.
The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God shall remain unchanged forever.”
Informer of good news, yell at Jerusalem from the mountaintops! Shout louder—fear not—inform the neigborhoods of Judah, “Your God is coming!”
Yes, the Lord God is coming with mighty power; he will rule with awesome strength. See, his reward is with him, to each as he has done.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will carry the lambs in his arms and gently lead the ewes with young.
Who else has cupped the seas in his hands and measured off the heavens with his ruler? Who else knows the exact weight all the earth and the mountains and the hills?
Who can advise the Spirit of the Lord to be His teacher or counsel Him?
Has God ever needed anyone’s advice? Did he need instruction as to what is right and best?
No, for all the peoples of the world are nothing in comparison with him—they are but a drop in the bucket, dust on the scales. He lifts up the islands as though they had no weight at all.
All of Lebanon’s forests do not contain sufficient fuel to consume a sacrifice large enough to honor Him. All its animals are not enough to offer to our God.
All the nations are as nothing to Him; in his eyes they are less than nothing—mere emptiness and froth.
How can we describe God? What can we compare him too?
Compare Him to an idol? An idol molded, overlaid with gold, and with silver chains around its neck?
The man too poor to buy expensive idols like that will find a tree without rot and hire a man to carve a face on it, and that’s his god—an immobile god!
Are you that ignorant? Are you so turned off by the words of God—the words He edited before the world began? Have you never heard or comprehended?
It is God who sits above the rounded earth. (The people below must seem to Him like mere insects!) He is the one who stretches out the heavens like a fabric and spreads this as He would a tent.
He dooms the great men of the world and brings them all to nothing.
They hardly get started, barely take root, when he blows on them and their work withers, and the wind carries them off like straw.
“With whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.
Look up into the heavens! Who created all the stars? As a shepherd leads his sheep, calling each by nicknames, and counts them to see that none are lost or strayed, so God does with stars and planets!
Jacob, Israel, how can you infer that the Lord doesn’t observe your trials and isn’t being fair?
Don’t you yet understand? Don’t you know by now that the everlasting God, the Creator of the entire earth, never grows faint or tired? None can fathom the depths of His understanding.
He extends strength to the tired, worn out, and the weak.
Even youths shall be exhausted, and the young men will all quit.
However, they that wait for the Lord shall regain their strength. They shall rise up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be tired; they shall walk and not faint.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.
2 Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.
3 A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
4 Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
5 And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen [it] have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a flower of the field:
7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people [is] grass;
8 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.
9 On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your God.'
10 Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before Him.
11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.
12 Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, And, [being] His counsellor, doth teach Him!
14 With whom consulted He, That he causeth Him to understand? And teacheth Him in the path of judgment, And teacheth Him knowledge? And the way of understanding causeth Him to know?
15 Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.
17 All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
18 And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?
19 The graven image poured out hath a artizan, And a refiner with gold spreadeth it over, And chains of silver he is refining.
20 He who is poor [by] heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.
21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From] the foundations of the earth?
22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
24 Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.
25 And unto whom do ye liken Me, And [am] I equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is] strong in power) not one is lacking.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age -- Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.
30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,
31 But those expecting Jehovah pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
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Re: Bible verse by verse
I find the Old Testament gets boring right after the Exodus so that's when I skip ahead to the New Testament. Never completely read through the Old Testament. Too many weird and uncomfortable passages for me.
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Re: Bible verse by verse
Polygamy-Porter wrote:Gunnar wrote:[
What a lame excuse! Any of us here could just as easily claim the same thing. This whole thread is a massive, unconscionably and horribly inconsiderate waste of Dr. Shades' bandwidth at his expense.
Dr. Shades is GOD here.
Doc? Time to excommunicate this fool. Nip this LittlerNipper in the bud.
LilNip wrote:God is LORD of ALL. But the simple reality is that no one is twisting your little arm. Don't read along if you do not wish to. Don't consider the fact that the Bible is far superior to any other text ever written. Don't believe the fact that GOD created one man for one woman and never intended divorce, multiple partners, or gay partners...
“25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'
27 And the Lord did not ask him again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch