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.
[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.
[34] By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the
LORD.
[35] For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
[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] So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
[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 Esar-haddon his son reigned
in his stead.
Isa.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.
[2]
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
[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.
[4] Then came the word of the LORD
to Isaiah, saying,
[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.
[6] And I will deliver
thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
[7] And this shall be
a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
[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.
[9] The writing of Hezekiah king
of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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 shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
[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.
[21] For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay
it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
[22] Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I
shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Isa.39
[1] At that time Merodach-baladan, 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.
[2] And Hezekiah was glad of
them, and shewed 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 shewed them not.
[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.
[4] Then
said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have