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landes, 18 And haue set fire on their gods: for they shall doe this. 32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord,
were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter
wood and stone: therefore they destroyed them. into this citie, nor shoote an arrowe there, nor
19 Nowe therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech come before it with shield, nor cast a mount
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thee, saue thou vs out of his hande, that all the against it: But he shall returne the way he
kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou, came, and shall not come into this citie, saith the
O Lord, art onely God. 20 Then Isaiah the sonne Lord. 34 For I will defende this citie to saue it
of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith for mine owne sake, and for Dauid my seruants
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the Lord God of Israel, I haue heard that which sake. And the same night the Angell of the
thou hast prayed me, concerning Saneherib King Lord went out and smote in the campe of Asshur
of Asshur. 21 This is the worde that the Lord an hundreth foure score and fiue thousande: so
hath spoken against him, O Virgine, daughter of when they rose earely in the morning, behold,
Zion, he hath despised thee, and laughed thee to they were all dead corpses. 36 So Saneherib
scorne: O daughter of Ierusalem, he hath shaken King of Asshur departed, and went his way, and
his head at thee. 22 Whome hast thou railed on? returned, and dwelt in Nineueh. 37 And as he
and whome hast thou blasphemed? and against was in the Temple worshipping Nisroch his god,
whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lifted vp Adramelech and Sharezer his sonnes slewe him
with the sworde: and they escaped into the land
thine eyes on hie? euen against the Holie one of of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in
Israel. 23 By thy messengers thou hast rayled on his steade.
the Lord, and said, By the multitude of my charets
I am come vp to the toppe of the mountaines, by 20
the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the hie 1 About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto
cedars thereof, and the faire firre trees thereof, death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz
and I will goe into the lodging of his borders, and came to him, and said vnto him, Thus saith the
into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I haue digged, Lord, Put thine house in an order: for thou shalt
and drunke the waters of others, and with the die, and not liue. 2 Then he turned his face
plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, 3 I
closed in. 25 Hast thou not heard, howe I haue beseech thee, O Lord, remember nowe, howe I
of olde time made it, and haue formed it long haue walked before thee in trueth and with a
ago? and should I nowe bring it, that it should perfite heart, and haue done that which is good
be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heapes, as in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore. 4 And
cities defensed? 26 Whose inhabitants haue small afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle of the
power, and are afraid, and confounded: they are court, the worde of the Lord came to him, saying,
like the grasse of the field, and greene herbe, or 5 Turne againe, and tell Hezekiah the captaine
grasse on ye house toppes, or as corne blasted of my people, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid
before it be growen. 27 I knowe thy dwelling, yea, thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene
thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy furie thy teares: behold, I haue healed thee, and ye
against me. 28 And because thou ragest against third day thou shalt go vp to ye house of ye Lord,
me, and thy tumult is come vp to mine eares, I 6 And I wil adde vnto thy dayes fiftene yere, and
will put mine hooke in thy nostrels, and my bridle wil deliuer thee and this citie out of the hand of
in thy lippes, and will bring thee backe againe the King of Asshur, and will defende this citie
the same way thou camest. 29 And this shalbe for mine owne sake, and for Dauid my seruats
a signe vnto thee, O Hezekiah, Thou shalt eate sake. 7 Then Isaiah sayde, Take a lumpe of dry
this yeere such things as growe of them selues, figges. And they tooke it, and layed it on the
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and the next yeere such as growe without sowing, boyle, and he recouered. For Hezekiah had saide
and the third yeere sowe ye and reape, and plant vnto Isaiah, What shalbe the signe that the Lord
vineyardes, and eate the fruites thereof. 30 And will heale me, and that I shall goe vp into the
theremnantthatisescapedofthehouseofIudah, house of the Lord the thirde day? 9 And Isaiah
shall againe take roote downewarde, and beare answered, This signe shalt thou haue of the Lord,
fruite vpwarde. 31 For out of Ierusalem shall that the Lord will doe that he hath spoken, Wilt
goe a remnant, and some that shall escape out thou that the shadowe goe forwarde ten degrees,
of mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes or go backe ten degrees? 10 And Hezekiah an-
swered, It is a light thing for the shadowe to