Search results for: Isaiah 64:8
Isaiah 37:7 (NIVUK)
Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.” ’
Isaiah 37:9 (NIVUK)
Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:
Isaiah 37:10 (NIVUK)
‘Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.”
Isaiah 37:11 (NIVUK)
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?
Isaiah 37:12 (NIVUK)
Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them – the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
Isaiah 37:13 (NIVUK)
Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?’
Isaiah 37:14 (NIVUK)
Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord .
Isaiah 37:15 (NIVUK)
And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord :
Isaiah 37:16 (NIVUK)
‘ Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 37:17 (NIVUK)
Give ear, Lord , and hear; open your eyes, Lord , and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
Isaiah 37:18 (NIVUK)
‘It is true, Lord , that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.
Isaiah 37:19 (NIVUK)
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Isaiah 37:20 (NIVUK)
Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord , are the only God. ’
Isaiah 37:21 (NIVUK)
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Isaiah 37:22 (NIVUK)
this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: ‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
Isaiah 37:23 (NIVUK)
Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 37:24 (NIVUK)
By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest heights, the finest of its forests.
Isaiah 37:25 (NIVUK)
I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Isaiah 37:26 (NIVUK)
‘Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
Isaiah 37:27 (NIVUK)
Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.
Isaiah 37:28 (NIVUK)
‘But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
Isaiah 37:29 (NIVUK)
Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
Isaiah 37:30 (NIVUK)
‘This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: ‘This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 37:31 (NIVUK)
Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.
Isaiah 37:32 (NIVUK)
For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.