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11 Tremble ye women that are at ease: be troubled ye careless ones: ftrip ye and make ye bare, and gird fackcloth upon your loins.

12 They fhall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my

people fhall come up thorns and briers, yea, upon all the houfes of joy in the joyous city:

and the city fhall be low in a low place.

20 Bleffed are ye that fow befide all waters, that fend forth thither the feet of the

ox and the ass.

CHAP. XXXVII.

ND it came to pass

A when King Hezekiah

heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with fackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2 And he fent Eliakim, who was over the houfhold, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with fackcloth, unto Ifaiah the prophet the son of

14 Because the palaces fhall be forfaken, the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers fhall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild affes, a pasture of flocks: 15 Until the fpirit be pour-Amoz. ed upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

16 Then judgment fhall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

17 And the work of righteousness fhall be peace, and the effect of righteoufnefs, quietnefs and affurance for

ever.

18 And my people fhall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in fure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places:

When it hall hail, coming down on the foreft;

3 And they faid unto him, Thus faith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blafphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not ftrength to bring forth.

4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabfhakeh, whom the king of Affyria his master hath fent 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. 5 So the fervants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Ff 6 And

6 And Ifaiah faid unto | nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Telasfar?

them, Thus fhall ye fay unto your mafter, Thus faith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou haft heard, wherewith the fervants of the king of Affyria have blasphemed me.

7 Behold, I will fend a blaft upon him, and he fhall hear a rumour, and return to his own land, and I will caufe him to fall by the fword in his own land.

8 So Rabfhakeh returned, and found the king of Affyria warring againft Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachifh.

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Henah and Ivah?

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.

15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, faying,

9 And he heard fay con- 16 O Lord of hofts, God cerning Tirhakah king of of Ifrael, that dwelleft beEthiopia, He is come forth tween the cherubims, thou to make war with thee: and art the God, even thou alone, when he heard it, he fent of all the kingdoms of the meffengers to Hezekiah, fay-earth, thou haft made heaven and earth.

ing,

10 Thus fhall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, faying, Let not thy God in whom thou trufteft deceive thee, faying, Jerufalem fhall not be given into the handproach the living God. of the king of Affyria.

17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and fee: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath fent to re

II Behold, thou haft heard what the kings of Allyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly, and fhalt thou be delivered ?

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12 Have the gods of the

18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Affyria have laid wafte all the nations, and their countries,

19 And have caft their gods. into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of

mens

mens hands, wood and ftone: therefore they have deftroyed them.

20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, fave us from

of: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the foreft of his Carmel.

25 I have digged and drunk water, and with the his hand, that all the king-fole of my feet have I dried doms of the earth may know up all the rivers of the bethat thou art the Lord, even fieged places. thou only.

21 ¶ Then Ifaiah the fon of Amoz fent unto Hezekiah, faying, Thus faith the Lord God of Ifrael, Whereas thou haft prayed to me againft Sennacherib king of Affyria:

26 Haft 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 pafs, that thou fhouldst be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps

22 This is the word which 27 Therefore their inhathe Lord hath spoken con-bitants were of small power, cerning him, The virgin the they were dismayed and condaughter of Zion hath de-founded: they were as the fpifed thee, and laughed thee grass of the field, and as the to fcorn, the daughter of Je-green herb, as the grafs on rufalem hath fhaken her head the house-tops, and as corn at thee. blafted before it be grown up.

23 Whom haft thou reproached and blafphemed? and against whom haft thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the holy One of Ifrael.

24 By thy fervants haft thou reproached the Lord, and haft faid, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the fides of Lebanon, and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees there

28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears: therefore will I put my hook in thy nofe, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou cameft.

30 And this fhall be a fign unto thee, Ye fhall eat this year fuch as groweth of it felf: and the fecond year that Ff 2 which

which springeth of the fame : [and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

and in the third year fow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

38 And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the houfe of Nifroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his fons fmote him with the fword; and they escaped

31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah fhall again take root downward, and bear fruit up-into the land of Armenia:

ward.

32 For out of Jerufalem fhall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hofts fhall do this.

and Efar-haddon his fon reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

N those days was Hezekiah fick unto death: and 33 Therefore thus faith Ifaiah the prophet the son of the Lord concerning the king Amoz came unto him, and of Affyria, He shall not come faid unto him, Thus faith into this city, nor fhoot an the Lord, Set thine house in arrow there, nor come be-order: for thou fhalt die, fore it with fhields, nor caft and not live. a bank againft it.

34 By the way that he came, by the fame fhall he return, and fhall not come into this city, faith the Lord. 35 For I will defend this city to fave it, for mine own fake, and for my fervant David's fake.

36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and fmote in the camp of the Affyrians a hundred and fourfcore and five thoufand: and when they arofe early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpfes.

37 So Sennacherib king of Affyria departed, and went,

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

3 And faid, Remember now, O Lord, I befeech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy fight: and Hezekiah wept fore.

4 ¶ Then came the word of the Lord to Ifaiah, faying,

5 Go, and fay to Hezekiah, Thus faith the Lord the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have feen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

6 And I will deliver thee, | and this city, out of the hand of the king of Affyria: and I will defend this city.

7 And this shall be a fign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken:

8 Behold, I will bring again the fhadow of the degrees which is gone down in the fun-dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. So the fun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been fick, and was recovered of his fickness:

10 I faid, in the cutting off of my days, I fhall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the refidue of my years.

III faid, I fhall not fee the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I fhall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

14 Like a crane or a swallow, fo did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppreffed, undertake for me.

15 What fhall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: Í fhall go foftly all my years in the bitterness of my foul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my fpirit: fo wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou haft in love to my foul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my fins behind thy back.

18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

19 The living, the living, he thall praife thee as I do this day: the father to the children fhall make known thy truth.

12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a fhepherd's tent: I bave cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining fickness from day even to 20 The Lord was ready to night wilt thou make an end fave me: therefore we will of me. fing my fongs to the ftringed 13 I reckoned till morn-inftruments, all the days of ng, that as a lion, fo will he our life, in the house of the

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