Search results for: Isaiah 64:8

Isaiah 36:3 (NIVUK)

Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.

Isaiah 36:4 (NIVUK)

The field commander said to them, ‘Tell Hezekiah: ‘ “This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: on what are you basing this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 36:5 (NIVUK)

You say you have counsel and might for war – but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?

Isaiah 36:6 (NIVUK)

Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

Isaiah 36:7 (NIVUK)

But if you say to me, ‘We are depending on the Lord our God’ – isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

Isaiah 36:9 (NIVUK)

How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen ?

Isaiah 36:10 (NIVUK)

Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord ? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.” ’

Isaiah 36:11 (NIVUK)

Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, ‘Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.’

But the commander replied, ‘Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall – who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?’

Isaiah 36:13 (NIVUK)

Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, ‘Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:14 (NIVUK)

This is what the king says: do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you!

Isaiah 36:15 (NIVUK)

Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 36:16 (NIVUK)

‘Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig-tree and drink water from your own cistern,

Isaiah 36:17 (NIVUK)

until I come and take you to a land like your own – a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 36:18 (NIVUK)

‘Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, “The Lord will deliver us.” Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36:19 (NIVUK)

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 36:20 (NIVUK)

Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’

Isaiah 36:21 (NIVUK)

But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, ‘Do not answer him.’

Isaiah 36:22 (NIVUK)

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.

Isaiah 37:1 (NIVUK)

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord .

Isaiah 37:2 (NIVUK)

He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37:3 (NIVUK)

They told him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: this day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.

Isaiah 37:4 (NIVUK)

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.’

Isaiah 37:5 (NIVUK)

When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,

Isaiah 37:6 (NIVUK)

Isaiah said to them, ‘Tell your master, “This is what the Lord says: do not be afraid of what you have heard – those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.