These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 37
Tanakh 38 verses
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And it came to pass, when heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of .
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And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto the the son of Amoz.
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- 3 And they said unto him: ‘Thus saith : This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
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It may be thy will the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the of his master hath sent to taunt the living , and will rebuke the words which thy hath heard; wherefore make prayer for the remnant that is left.’
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Isaiah 36:20 Isaiah 1:9 Psalm 106:23 Isaiah 10:22 2 Kings 19:22-23 Isaiah 10:5-6 2 Samuel 16:12 1 Samuel 12:19 2 Kings 17:18 Joshua 14:12 1 Samuel 17:26 Isaiah 36:18 2 Kings 19:4 Romans 9:27 1 Samuel 12:23 Amos 5:15 2 Chronicles 32:15-20 1 Samuel 14:6 Isaiah 37:23-24 Isaiah 8:7-8 1 Samuel 17:36 2 Kings 18:9-16 Psalm 50:21 Joel 2:17 2 Chronicles 28:19 Isaiah 36:13 1 Samuel 7:8 James 5:16 Isaiah 51:7-8 - 5 So the servants of came to .
- 6 And said unto them: ‘Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith : Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the of have blasphemed Me.
- 7 Behold, I will put a in him, and he shall a rumour, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’
- 8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the of warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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And he heard say concerning Tirhakah of Ethiopia: ‘He is come out to fight against thee.’ And when he heard it, he sent messengers to , saying:
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- 10 Thus shall ye speak to of , saying: Let not thy in whom thou trustest beguile thee, saying: shall not be given into the hand of the of .
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
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- 12 Have the Elohims of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
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Where is the of Hamath, and the of Arpad, and the of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’
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- 14 And received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and went up unto the house of , and spread it before .
- 15 And prayed unto , saying:
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O of hosts, the of , that sittest upon the , Thou art the , even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made and earth.
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Psalm 86:10 Exodus 25:22 Psalm 99:1 1 Samuel 4:4 Psalm 80:1 John 1:3 Colossians 1:16 Isaiah 6:3 Psalm 46:11 Isaiah 43:10-11 Isaiah 45:22 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 44:24 1 Kings 18:32 Psalm 136:2-3 Genesis 1:1 Psalm 146:6 Isaiah 37:20 2 Samuel 7:26 Hebrews 4:16 Psalm 46:7 2 Kings 5:15 Isaiah 8:13 Deuteronomy 10:17 Jeremiah 10:10-12 Isaiah 40:28 Isaiah 54:5 Revelation 11:15-17 - 17 Incline Thine ear, O , and ; open Thine eyes, O , and see; and all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living .
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Of a , , the kings of have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
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- 19 and have cast their Elohims into the fire; for they were no Elohims, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- 20 Now therefore, O our , us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may that Thou art , even Thou only.’
- 21 Then the son of Amoz sent unto , saying: ‘Thus saith , the of : Whereas thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib of ,
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this is the which hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; The daughter of Hath shaken her head at thee.
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Job 16:4 Psalm 9:14 Lamentations 2:13 Zephaniah 3:14 Isaiah 1:8 Zechariah 2:10 Jeremiah 14:17 Psalm 46:1-7 Psalm 27:1-3 Joel 3:9-12 Amos 5:2 Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 27:39 1 Samuel 17:36 Lamentations 1:15 Matthew 21:5 Psalm 22:7-8 Isaiah 10:32 1 Samuel 17:44-47 Isaiah 23:12 Isaiah 62:11 Psalm 2:2-4 Isaiah 8:9-10 Psalm 31:18 -
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Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high, Even against the Holy One of !
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Ezekiel 39:7 Isaiah 41:14 Ezekiel 28:9 Psalm 74:18 Exodus 5:2 Isaiah 37:4 Exodus 9:17 Habakkuk 1:12-13 2 Kings 19:4 Proverbs 30:13 Psalm 74:23 Ezekiel 28:2 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Isaiah 43:3 Psalm 73:9 Isaiah 12:6 Isaiah 41:16 Isaiah 14:13-14 Isaiah 2:11 Exodus 15:11 Isaiah 17:7 Isaiah 30:11-12 Psalm 44:16 2 Kings 19:22 Revelation 13:1-6 2 Chronicles 32:17 Daniel 7:25 Isaiah 37:10-13 Isaiah 43:14 Isaiah 10:20 Daniel 5:20-23 Isaiah 10:13-15 - 24 By thy servants hast thou taunted , And hast said: With the multitude of my chariots Am I come up to the height of the mountains, To the innermost parts of Lebanon; And I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, And the choice cypress-trees thereof; And I have entered into his farthest height, The forest of his fruitful field.
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I have digged and drunk water, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up All the rivers of .
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- 26 Hast thou not heard? Long ago I made it, In ancient times I fashioned it; Now have I brought it to pass, Yea, it is done; that fortified cities Should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.
- 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field, And as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, And as a field of corn before it is grown up.
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But I thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against Me.
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Because of thy raging against Me, And for that thine uproar is come up into Mine ears, Therefore will I put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way By which thou camest.
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- 30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
- 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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For out of shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount they that shall escape; the zeal of of hosts shall perform this.
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Therefore thus saith concerning the of : He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mound against it.
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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith .
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- 35 For I will defend this city to it, for Mine own sake, and for My David’s sake.’
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And the of went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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So Sennacherib of departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at .
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- 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his , that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.