2 Kings 19
19:1And it came to pass as king Hezekiah heard, that he tore his garments, and put on sackcloth, and entered into the house of the lord.
19:2And he sent Eliakim the manager, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, having put on sackcloths, to Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet.
19:3And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, A day of affliction, and of rebuke, and provocation to anger is this day; for the sons came unto birth pangs, and there is no strength to give birth.
19:4If by any means the lord your God shall hearken to all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians his master sent him to berate the living God, and to reprove by words which the lord your God heard, that you shall take up a prayer for the remnant being found.
19:5And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
19:6And Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall say to your master, Thus says the lord, You should not fear from the words which you heard, which the servants of the king of the Assyrians blasphemed against me.
19:7Behold, I give a spirit to him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return unto his land, and I will cast him down by the broadsword in his land.
19:8And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of the Assyrians waging war against Libnah; for he heard that he departed from Lachish.
19:9And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he comes forth to wage war against you. And he returned, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
19:10Thus shall you say to Hezekiah king of Judah, Let not your God deceive you in whom you rely upon him, saying, In no way should Jerusalem be delivered up into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
19:11Behold, you heard all as much as the king of the Assyrians did in all the lands, as they utterly destroyed them; and how shall you be rescued?
19:12Have the gods of the nations rescued which my fathers utterly destroyed -- both Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, the ones in Thelasar?
19:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim -- Hena and Ivah?
19:14And Hezekiah took the scrolls from out of the hand of the messengers and read them. And he ascended into the house of the lord, and Hezekiah unrolled them before the lord.
19:15And Hezekiah prayed to the lord, saying, O Lord God of Israel, the one sitting upon the cherubim, you are God alone among all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heaven and the earth.
19:16Lean, O lord, your ear, and hear! Open, O lord, your eyes, and behold! And hear the words of Sennacherib! which he sent to berate the living God.
19:17For truth, O lord, the kings of the Assyrians made desolate the nations, and all their land,
19:18and put their gods into the fire, for they are not gods, but only the works of the hands of men -- wood and stone. And they destroyed them.
19:19And now, O lord our God, deliver us from out of his hand! And they shall know in all the kingdoms of the earth that you are the lord God alone.
19:20And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the lord God of Israel, I heard what you pray for to me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.
19:21This is the word which the lord spoke against him, The virgin daughter of Zion treats you with contempt and sneers at you. Over you the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head.
19:22Whom have you berated and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised up your voice, and lifted your eyes into the height? even against the holy one of Israel.
19:23By the hand of your messengers you have berated the lord, and said, By the multitude of my chariots I ascended into the height of the mountains, the sides of Lebanon, and I felled the greatness of his cedar, his chosen cypresses, and I came in the midst of the grove of Carmel.
19:24I cooled myself and drank alien waters; and I made quite desolate with the sole of my feet all the rivers of the citadel.
19:25Heard you not that far off I made her? From ancient days I formed her, and now I brought her. And she became for haughtiness of fortified cities of combative resettlements.
19:26And the ones dwelling in them weakened in the hand. They were alarmed and were disgraced. They became as grass of the field, and as the green pasturage; as tender shoots growing on roofs, and trampled before standing.
19:27And of your sitting-down, and of your exiting, and of your entering, and of your rage against me I knew.
19:28On account of your being provoked to anger against me, that your indulgence ascended to my ears, and I shall put my hook in your nostrils, and bits in your lips, and I will return you in the way which you came by it.
19:29And this is to you the sign. You shall eat this year the things grown by themselves, and in in the second year the things rising up, and the third year you shall sow, and you shall reap, and you shall plant vineyards, and you shall eat their fruit.
19:30And he shall add to the one being preserved of the house of Judah, the one being left behind as a root below. And he shall produce fruit upward.
19:31For from out of Jerusalem shall come forth a vestige, and the one rescuing from out of mount Zion. The zeal of the lord of the forces shall do this.
19:32Therefore thus says the lord to the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and he shall not anticipate it with a shield, nor shall he pour out dirt against it for a seige mound.
19:33By the way in which he came by it, he shall return; and into this city he shall not enter, says the lord.
19:34And I shall shield over this city to deliver her because of myself, and because of David my servant.
19:35And it came to pass at night, that there came forth an angel of the lord, and he struck among the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And they rose early in the morning, and behold, all dead bodies.
19:36And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed and went and returned, and he lived in Nineveh.
19:37And it came to pass when he did obeisance in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with a sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned instead of him.