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30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but
 not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they
 may add sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
 strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
 shadow of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
 the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be
 an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south:  into the land of trouble and
 anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
 flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young
 asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that
 shall not profit them.
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:  therefore
 have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it
 may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that
 will not hear the law of the LORD:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not
 unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One
 of Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
 word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
 swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is
 broken in pieces; he shall not spare:  so that there shall not be found in
 the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water
 withal out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and
 rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your
 strength:  and ye would not.
30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye
 flee:  and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue
 you be swift.
30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
 shall ye flee:  till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and
 as an ensign on an hill.
30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you,
 and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you:  for the
 LORD is a God of judgment:  blessed are all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:  thou shalt weep no
 more:  he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he
 shall hear it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water
 of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
 more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the
 way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the
 left.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and
 the ornament of thy molten images of gold:  thou shalt cast them away as a
 menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the
 ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat
 and plenteous:  in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat
 clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
 rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the
 towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and
 the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the
 day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the
 stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his
 anger, and the burden thereof is heavy:  his lips are full of
 indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of
 the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity:  and there shall
 be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;
 and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the
 mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall
 show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and
 with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and
 hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
 which smote with a rod.
30:32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the
 LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps:  and in
 battles of shaking will he fight with it.
30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
 hath made it deep and large:  the pile thereof is fire and much wood;
 the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

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31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and
 trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they
 are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither
 seek the LORD!
31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his
 words:  but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the
 help of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and
 not spirit.  When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth
 shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail
 together.
31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
 lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth
 against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for
 the noise of them:  so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount
 Zion, and for the hill thereof.
31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
 also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
 revolted.
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his
 idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and
 the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:  but he shall flee from the
 sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes
 shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and
 his furnace in Jerusalem.

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32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
 judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from
 the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great
 rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them
 that hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue
 of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to
 be bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work
 iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to
 make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the
 thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil:  he deviseth wicked
 devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh
 right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he
 stand.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless
 daughters; give ear unto my speech.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:  for the
 vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: 
 strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
 fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea,
 upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall
 be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild
 asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be
 a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain
 in the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
 righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
 dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be
 low in a low place.
32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither
 the feet of the ox and the ass.

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33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest
 treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee!  when thou shalt
 cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to
 deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee:  be thou their
 arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of
 thyself the nations were scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
 caterpillar:  as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high:  he hath filled Zion with
 judgment and righteousness.
33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and
 strength of salvation:  the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without:  the ambassadors of peace
 shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth:  he hath broken the
 covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
33:9 The earth mourneth and languisheth:  Lebanon is ashamed and hewn
 down:  Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their
 fruits.
33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I
 lift up myself.
33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:  your breath,
 as fire, shall devour you.
33:12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime:  as thorns cut up
 shall they be burned in the fire.
33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are
 near, acknowledge my might.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
 hypocrites.  Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?  who among
 us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth
 the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes,
 that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from
 seeing evil;
33:16 He shall dwell on high:  his place of defence shall be the munitions
 of rocks:  bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty:  they shall behold the
 land that is very far off.
33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror.  Where is the scribe?  where is
 the receiver?  where is he that counted the towers?
33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than
 thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not
 understand.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:  thine eyes shall see
 Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down;
 not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of
 the cords thereof be broken.
33:21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers
 and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant
 ship pass thereby.
33:22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is
 our king; he will save us.
33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast,
 they could not spread the sail:  then is the prey of a great spoil divided;
 the lame take the prey.
33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick:  the people that dwell
 therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

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34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people:  let the earth
 hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of
 it.
34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
 upon all their armies:  he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered
 them to the slaughter.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
 of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
 rolled together as a scroll:  and all their host shall fall down, as the
 leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:  behold, it shall come down
 upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with
 fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
 kidneys of rams:  for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great
 slaughter in the land of Idumea.
34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the
 bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
 with fatness.
34:8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
 recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
 thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up
 for ever:  from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall
 pass through it for ever and ever.
34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and
 the raven shall dwell in it:  and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
 confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
 there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
 fortresses thereof:  and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a
 court for owls.
34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of
 the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also
 shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and
 gather under her shadow:  there shall the vultures also be gathered, every
 one with her mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read:  no one of these shall
 fail, none shall want her mate:  for my mouth it hath commanded, and his
 spirit it hath gathered them.
34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto
 them by line:  they shall possess it for ever, from generation to
 generation shall they dwell therein.

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35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
 desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: 
 the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and
 Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our
 God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: 
 behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a
 recompense; he will come and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf
 shall be unstopped.
35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
 sing:  for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the
 desert.
35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
 springs of water:  in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be
 grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
 way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for
 those:  the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
 it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs
 and everlasting joy upon their heads:  they shall obtain joy and gladness,
 and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
 Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of
 Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
 king Hezekiah with a great army.  And he stood by the conduit of the upper
 pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the
 house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
 great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou
 trustest?
36:5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel
 and strength for war:  now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
 against me?
36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon
 if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it:  so is Pharaoh
 king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God:  is it not he,
 whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to
 Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of
 Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy
 part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
 master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for
 horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it?
  the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray
 thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it; and
 speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are
 on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee
 to speak these words?  hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the
 wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
 language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of
 Assyria.
36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:  for he shall not
 be able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will
 surely deliver us:  this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the
 king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah:  for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an
 agreement with me by a present, and come out to me:  and eat ye every
 one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the
 waters of his own cistern;
36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of
 corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
  Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of
 the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad?  where are the gods of
 Sepharvaim?  and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
 their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my
 hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word:  for the
 king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household,
 and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to
 Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
 clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
 LORD.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the
 scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah
 the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
 trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy:  for the children are come to the
 birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the
 king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will
 reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:  wherefore lift up
 thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus
 saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith
 the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
 return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
 own land.
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
 Libnah:  for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth
 to make war with thee.  And when he heard it, he sent messengers to
 Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
 God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
 given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
 lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
 destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
 which were in Telassar?
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of
 the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and
 read it:  and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it
 before the LORD.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
37:16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims,
 thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: 
 thou hast made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see:
  and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the
 living God.
37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
 nations, and their countries.
37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire:  for they were no gods, but
 the work of men's hands, wood and stone:  therefore they have destroyed
 them.
37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the
 kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
 LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king
 of Assyria:
37:22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
 virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
 scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?  and against whom hast thou
 exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?  even against the
 Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
 multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
 the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and
 the choice fir trees thereof:  and I will enter into the height of his
 border, and the forest of his Carmel.
37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I
 dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient
 times, that I have formed it?  now have I brought it to pass, that thou
 shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
37:27 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 corn blasted before it be
 grown up.
37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
 rage against me.
37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, 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.
37:30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as
 groweth of itself; and 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.
37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take
 root downward, and bear fruit upward:
37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
 out of mount Zion:  the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
 not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with
 shields, nor cast a bank against it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not
 come into this city, saith the LORD.
37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
 servant David's sake.
37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
 Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:  and when they arose
 early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
 dwelt at Nineveh.
37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
 god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and
 they escaped into the land of Armenia:  and Esarhaddon his son reigned in
 his stead.

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38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.  And Isaiah the prophet the
 son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set
 thine house in order:  for thou shalt die, and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
 LORD,
38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked
 before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which
 is good in thy sight.  And Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy
 father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears:  behold, I will add
 unto thy days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
 Assyria:  and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will
 do this thing that he hath spoken;
38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
 down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.  So the sun returned
 ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
 recovered of his sickness:
38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
 grave:  I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the
 living:  I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:  I
 have cut off like a weaver my life:  he will cut me off with pining
 sickness:  from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my
 bones:  from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter:  I did mourn as a dove:
  mine eyes fail with looking upward:  O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake
 for me.
38:15 What shall I say?  he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
 it:  I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the
 life of my spirit:  so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:  but thou hast in love to my
 soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:  for thou hast cast all my
 sins behind thy back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: 
 they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:  the
 father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20 The LORD was ready to save me:  therefore we will sing my songs to
 the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
 plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the
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39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
 letters and a present to Hezekiah:  for he had heard that he had been sick,
 and was recovered.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his
 precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
 ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his
 treasures:  there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
 Hezekiah showed them not.
39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
 What said these men?  and from whence came they unto thee?  And Hezekiah
 said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house?  And Hezekiah
 answered, All that is in mine house have they seen:  there is nothing
 among my treasures that I have not showed them.
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that
 which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
 Babylon:  nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
 shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
 of Babylon.
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou
 hast spoken.  He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my
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40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare
 is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned:  for she hath received of
 the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
 the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
 made low:  and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
 plain:
40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
 it together:  for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
40:6 The voice said, Cry.  And he said, What shall I cry?  All flesh is
 grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:  because the spirit of the LORD
 bloweth upon it:  surely the people is grass.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:  but the word of our God shall
 stand for ever.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain;
 O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength;
 lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall
 rule for him:  behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:  he shall gather the lambs
 with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those
 that are with young.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
 heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,
 and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor
 hath taught him?
40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in
 the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way
 of understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as
 the small dust of the balance:  behold, he taketh up the isles as a very
 little thing.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
 sufficient for a burnt offering.
40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him
 less than nothing, and vanity.
40:18 To whom then will ye liken God?  or what likeness will ye compare unto
 him?
40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it
 over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree
 that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a
 graven image, that shall not be moved.
40:21 Have ye not known?  have ye not heard?  hath it not been told you from
 the beginning?  have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the
 inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens
 as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
 earth as vanity.
40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown:  yea,
 their stock shall not take root in the earth:  and he shall also blow upon
 them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as
 stubble.
40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?  saith the Holy
 One.
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,
 that bringeth out their host by number:  he calleth them all by names by
 the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one
 faileth.
40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from
 the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
40:28 Hast thou not known?  hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
 the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
 weary?  there is no searching of his understanding.
40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
 increaseth strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
 utterly fall:
40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they
 shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
 and they shall walk, and not faint.