2 Kings 19:1-20:21 And it comes to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rends his garments, and covers himself with sackcloth, and enters the house of Yahweh,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it comes to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rends his garments, and covers himself with sackcloth, and enters the house of Yahweh, ² and sends Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz, 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 bring forth. ⁴ `It may be Yahweh your Elohim does hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord has sent him to reproach the living Elohim, and has decided concerning the words that Yahweh your Elohim has heard, and you have lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.. ⁵ And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah, ⁶ and Isaiah said to them, `Thus do you say unto your lord:Thus said Yahweh, Be not afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me. ⁷ Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he has heard a report, and has turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.. ⁸ And the chief of the butlers turns back and finds the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he has heard that he has journeyed from Lachish. ⁹ And he hears concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `Lo, he has come out to fight with you;' and he turns and sends messengers unto Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ `Thus do you speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your Elohim lift you up in whom you are trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur. ¹¹ Lo, you have heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands--to devote them; and you are delivered!" ¹² did the elohims of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed--Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar? 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 takes the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and reads them, and goes up to the house of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spreads it before Yahweh. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prays before Yahweh, and said, `O Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, You [are] Elohim Himself--Yourself alone--to all the kingdoms of the earth:You have made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁶ Incline, O Yahweh, Your ear, and hear; open, O Yahweh, Your eyes, and see; and hear You the words of Sennacherib with which he has sent him to reproach the living Elohim. ¹⁷ `Truly, O Yahweh, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land, ¹⁸ and have put their elohims into fire, for they [are] no elohims, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them. ¹⁹ And now, O Yahweh our Elohim, save us, we pray You, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that You [are] Yahweh Elohim--Yourself alone.. ²⁰ And Isaiah son of Amoz sends unto Hezekiah, saying, `Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, That which you have prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard. ²¹ this [is] the word that Yahweh spoke concerning him:`Trampled on you--laughed at you, Has the virgin daughter of Zion Behind you shaken the head--Has the daughter of Jerusalem? ²² Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, you do lift up on high your eyes--Against the Holy One of Israel!" ²³ By the hand of your messengers You have reproached the Lord, and say:In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains--The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel. ²⁴ I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark. ²⁵ Have you not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becomes a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities, ²⁶ 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 has risen up!" ²⁷ And your sitting down, and your going out, And your coming in, I have known, And your anger towards Me;" ²⁸ Because of your anger towards Me, And your noise--it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And have caused you to turn back, In the way in which you came. ²⁹ And this to you [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow you, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits. ³⁰ And it has continued--The escaped of the house of Judah That has been left--to take root beneath, And has made fruit upward. ³¹ For from Jerusalem goes out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Yahweh [of Hosts] does this. ³² Therefore, thus said Yahweh, Concerning the king of Asshur:He does not come in unto this city, Nor does he shoot there an arrow, Nor does he come before it with shield. Nor does he pour out against it a mount. ³³ In the way that he comes in--In it he turns back, And unto this city he does not come in, The affirmation of Yahweh-. ³⁴ And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.. ³⁵ And it comes to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Yahweh goes out, and smites in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses. ³⁶ And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeys, and goes, and turns back, and dwells in Nineveh;" ³⁷ and it comes to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his elohim, and Adramelech and Sharezar [his sons] have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigns in his stead. ²⁰ ¹ In those days has Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him does Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and said unto him, `Thus said Yahweh:Give a charge to your house, for you are dying, and do not live.. ² And he turns round his face unto the wall, and prays unto Yahweh, saying, ³ `I pray You, O Yahweh, remember, I pray You, how I have walked habitually before You in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in Your eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weeps--a great weeping. ⁴ And it comes to pass--Isaiah has not gone out to the middle court--that the word of Yahweh has been unto him, saying, ⁵ `Turn back, and you have said unto Hezekiah, leader of My people:Thus said Yahweh, Elohim of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, lo, I give healing to you, on the third day you do go up to the house of Yahweh;" ⁶ and I have added to your days fifteen years, and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver you and this city, and have covered over this city for Mine own sake, and for the sake of David My servant.. ⁷ And Isaiah said, `Take you a cake of figs;' and they take and lay [it] on the boil, and he revives. ⁸ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, `What [is] the sign that Yahweh does give healing to me, that I have gone up on the third day to the house of Yahweh?. ⁹ And Isaiah said, `This [is] to you the sign from Yahweh, that Yahweh does the thing that He has spoken--The shadow has gone on ten degrees, or it does turn back ten degrees?. ¹⁰ And Hezekiah said, `It has been light for the shadow to incline ten degrees:nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees.. ¹¹ And Isaiah the prophet calls unto Yahweh, and He brings back the shadow by the degrees that it had gone down in the degrees of Ahaz--backward ten degrees. ¹² At that time has Berodach-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick;" ¹³ and Hezekiah hearkens unto them, and shows them all the house of his treasury, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that has been found in his treasuries; there has not been a thing that Hezekiah has not showed them, in his house, and in all his dominion. ¹⁴ And Isaiah the prophet comes in unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, `What said these men? and whence come they unto you?' And Hezekiah said, `From a land afar off they have come--from Babylon.. ¹⁵ And he said, `What saw they in your house?' and Hezekiah said, `All that [is] in my house they saw; there has not been a thing that I have not showed them among my treasures.. ¹⁶ And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, `Hear a word of Yahweh. ¹⁷ Lo, days are coming, and borne has been all that [is] in your house, and that your father have treasured up till this day, to Babylon; there is not left a thing, said Yahweh;" ¹⁸ and of your sons who go out from you, whom you beget, they take away, and they have been eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.. ¹⁹ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, `Good [is] the word of Yahweh that you have spoken;' and he said, `Is it not--if peace and truth are in my days?. ²⁰ And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brings in the waters to the city, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ²¹ And Hezekiah lies with his fathers, and reign does Manasseh his son in his stead.