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Isaiah 37

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1And it came to pass, when king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] heard [it], that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
2And he sent Elyakim [God sets up], who [was] over the household, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the prophet the son of Amotz [strong].
3And they said unto him, Thus says Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain), and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
4It may be the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will hear the words of Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer], whom the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) his master has sent to reproach (disgrace; shame) the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and will reprove the words which the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has heard: wherefore lift up [youri] prayer for the remnant that is left.
5So the servants of king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] came to Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved].
6And Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] said unto them, Thus shall you2f say unto your master, Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Be not afraid of the words that youi have heard, which the servants of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have blasphemed me.
7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8So Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] returned, and found the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) warring against Livnah [Pavement]: for he had heard that he was departed from Lakhish [Invincible].
9And he heard say concerning Tirhakah [he searched out the pious] king of Ethiopia [Kush], He is come forth to make war with youi. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], saying,
10Thus shall you2f speak to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, Let not youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], in whom youi trust, deceive youi, saying, Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall not be given into the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).
11Behold, youi have heard what the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall youi be delivered?
12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan [a cutting off], and Haran [mountaineer], and Retzef [a hot stone], and the children of ‘Eden [pleasure] which [were] in Tel’asar [Assyrian hill]?
13Where [is] the king of Hamat [Fortress], and the king of Arpad [I shall be supported], and the king of the city of S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)], Hena [troubling], and ‘Ivah [ruin]?
14And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] went up unto the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and spread it before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
15And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] prayed unto the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying,
16O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that dwell [between] the k’vurim (cherubim), youi [are] the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [even] youi alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: youi have made heaven and earth.
17Incline youi ear, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and hear; open youri eyes, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and see: and hear all the words of Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers], which has sent to reproach (disgrace; shame) the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
18Of a truth, Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20Now therefore, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that youi [are] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [even] youi only.
21Then Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the son of Amotz [strong] sent unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], saying, Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Whereas youi have prayed to me against Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))):
22This [is] the word which the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Tziyon [parched place], has despised youi, [and] laughed youi to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] has shaken her head at youi.
23Whom have youi reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have youi exalted [youri] voice, and lifted up youri eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
24By youri servants have youi reproached the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], and have said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of L’vanon [Whiteness]; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of his Carmel [Garden-land].
25I have excavated, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26Have youi not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that youi should be to lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.
27Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.
28But I know youi abode, and youri going out, and youri coming in, and youri rage against me.
29Because youri rage against me, and youri tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in youri nose, and my bridle in youri lips, and I will turn youi back by the way by which youi came.
30And this [shall be] a sign unto youi, You2f shall eat [this] year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same: and in the third year sow you2f, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32For out of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Tziyon [parched place]: the zeal of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] shall do this.
33Therefore thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) concerning the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
35For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s [beloved]’s sake.
36Then the Angel of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) went forth, and struck in the camp of the children of Ashur a hundred and eighty and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
37So Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation].
38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh [the great eagle] his god, that Adramelekh [honor of the king, or Adar is prince] and Shar’etzer [prince of fire] his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat [the curse reversed] [the curse reversed: precipitation of curse]: and Esar-Hadon [Ashur has given a brother] his son reigned in his stead.

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