English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 37, verse 27 in Nlv Version

Isaiah 37 : 1 (NLV)

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes. He covered himself with cloth made from hair, and went into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 37 : 2 (NLV)

Then he sent Eliakim, the head of the house, and Shebna the writer, and the head religious leaders, covered with cloth made from hair, to Isaiah the man of God, the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 37 : 3 (NLV)

They said to him, "Hezekiah says, 'This day is a day of trouble, pain, and shame. For children have come to birth, and there is no strength for them to be born.

Isaiah 37 : 4 (NLV)

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his leader the king of Assyria has sent to try to bring shame upon the living God. The Lord your God may speak sharp words against what He has heard. So say a prayer for those who are left of His people.' "

Isaiah 37 : 5 (NLV)

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

Isaiah 37 : 6 (NLV)

And Isaiah said to them, "Tell your king, 'This is what the Lord says. "Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have spoken against Me.

Isaiah 37 : 7 (NLV)

See, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear some news and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land." ' "

Isaiah 37 : 8 (NLV)

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

Isaiah 37 : 9 (NLV)

Now the king had heard them say about King Tirhakah of Cush, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent men to Hezekiah, saying,

Isaiah 37 : 10 (NLV)

"Tell Hezekiah king of Judah, 'Do not let your God in Whom you trust fool you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 37 : 11 (NLV)

See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands. They have destroyed them all. So will you be kept from trouble?

Isaiah 37 : 12 (NLV)

Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed take them out of trouble? Did they save Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 37 : 13 (NLV)

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?' "

Isaiah 37 : 14 (NLV)

Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the men from Assyria, and read it. He went up to the house of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.

Isaiah 37 : 15 (NLV)

And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord,

Isaiah 37 : 16 (NLV)

"O Lord of All, the God of Israel, Who sits on the throne above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the nations of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

Isaiah 37 : 17 (NLV)

Listen, O Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to speak against the living God.

Isaiah 37 : 18 (NLV)

It is true, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.

Isaiah 37 : 19 (NLV)

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, made of wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Isaiah 37 : 20 (NLV)

Now, O Lord our God, take us out of his hand, that all the nations of the earth may know that You alone are the Lord."

Isaiah 37 : 21 (NLV)

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37 : 22 (NLV)

this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: "She has hated you and made fun of you, the young daughter of Zion who has never had a man! She has shaken her head behind you, the people of Jerusalem!

Isaiah 37 : 23 (NLV)

Whom have you put to shame and spoken against? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37 : 24 (NLV)

Through your servants you have spoken against the Lord. You have said, 'I came up to the high mountains with my many war-wagons, to the farthest parts of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedar trees and its best cypress trees. I came to its highest mountain top, and to the place that has the most trees.

Isaiah 37 : 25 (NLV)

I dug wells in strange lands and drank water there. With the bottom of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

Isaiah 37 : 26 (NLV)

Have you not heard that I planned this long ago? From days of old I planned it. Now I have made it happen, that you should turn strong cities built for battles into waste lands.

Isaiah 37 : 27 (NLV)

So their people did not have any more strength. They were troubled and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field and like the green plant. They were like grass on the housetops, dried up before it is grown.

Isaiah 37 : 28 (NLV)

But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your anger against Me.

Isaiah 37 : 29 (NLV)

Because of your anger against Me, and because I have heard of your pride, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bit in your mouth. And I will make you return the way you came.

Isaiah 37 : 30 (NLV)

"This will be the special thing for you to see: You will eat this year what grows of itself. In the second year you will eat what grows up from the same. Then in the third year you will plant and gather. You will plant grape-fields and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37 : 31 (NLV)

And those who are left of the family of Judah will again have their roots grow down and grow their fruit above.

Isaiah 37 : 32 (NLV)

For My people who are left will go out from Jerusalem and from Mount Zion. This will be done by the work of the Lord of All." ' "

Isaiah 37 : 33 (NLV)

So the Lord says about the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with a battle-covering, or build a battle-wall against it.

Isaiah 37 : 34 (NLV)

He will return by the same way he came, and he will not come to this city,' says the Lord.

Isaiah 37 : 35 (NLV)

'For I will fight for this city to save it for My own good, and for the good of My servant David.' "

Isaiah 37 : 36 (NLV)

Then the angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. And when men got up early in the morning, they saw all these dead bodies.

Isaiah 37 : 37 (NLV)

So Sennacherib king of Assyria left and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

Isaiah 37 : 38 (NLV)

When he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword. Then they ran away to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon became king in his place.