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come vp without the Lord to this land to destroy clothed in sackcloth vnto Isaiah the Prophet, the
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it? The Lord sayd vnto me, Goe vp against this sonne of Amoz. And they sayd vnto him, Thus
land and destroy it. 11 Then sayd Eliakim and saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation
Shebna and Ioah vnto Rabshakeh, Speake, I pray and of rebuke and blasphemie: for the children
thee, to thy seruants in the Aramites language, are come to the birth, and there is no strength
(for we vnderstand it) and talke not with vs in to bring foorth. 4 If so be the Lord thy God
the Iewes tongue, in the audience of the people hath heard the wordes of Rabshakeh, whom the
thatareonthewall. 12 ThensaidRabshakeh, Hath King of Asshur his master hath sent to raile on
my master sent me to thy master, and to thee the liuing God, and to reproch him with wordes
to speake these wordes, and not to the men that which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou
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sit on the wall? that they may eate their owne vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left. So
doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you? the seruants of the King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
13 So Rabshakeh stood, and cryed with a loude 6 And Isaiah sayde vnto them, Thus say vnto your
voyce in the Iewes language, and sayd, Heare the master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afrayd of
wordes of the great King, of the King of Asshur. the wordes that thou hast heard, wherewith the
14 Thus saith the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed
you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you. me. 7 Beholde, I wil send a blast vpon him, and
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the he shall heare a noyse, and returne to his owne
Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliuer vs: this land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword
citie shall not be giuen ouer into the hand of the in his owne land. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and
King of Asshur. 16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for found the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah:
thus sayth the King of Asshur, Make appointment for he had heard that he was departed from
with me, and come out to me, that euery man Lachish. 9 He heard also men say of Tirhakah,
may eate of his owne vine, and euery man of his King of Ethiopia, Beholde, he is come out to fight
owne fig tree, and drinke euery man the water against thee: and when he heard it, he sent other
of his owne well, 17 Till I come and bring you messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye
to a land like your owne land, euen a land of speake to Hezekiah King of Iudah, saying, Let not
wheate, and wine, a land of bread and vineyardes, thy God deceiue thee, in whom thou trustest,
18 Least Hezekiah deceiue you, saying, The Lord saying, Ierusalemshallnotbegiuenintothehand
wil deliuer vs. Hath any of the gods of the nations of the King of Asshur. 11 Beholde, thou hast heard
deliuered his land out of the hand of the King of what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all lands
Asshur? 19 Where is the god of Hamath, and of in destroying them, and shalt thou be deliuered?
Arpad? where is the god of Sepharuaim? or howe 12 Haue the gods of the nations deliuered them,
haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand? which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and
20 Who is hee among all the gods of these lands, Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden,
that hath deliuered their countrey out of mine which were at Telassar? 13 Where is the King of
hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem Hamath, and the King of Arpad, and the King of
out of mine hand? 21 Then they kept silence, the citie of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah? 14 So
and answered him not a worde: for the Kings Hezekiah receiued the letter of the hand of the
commandement was, saying, Answere him not. messengers and read it, and he went vp into
22 Then came Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah the the House of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread it
steward of the house, and Shebna the chanceller, before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed vnto the
and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder, vnto Lord, saying, 16 O Lord of hostes, God of Israel,
Hezekiah with rent clothes, and tolde him the which dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou
wordes of Rabshakeh. art very God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the
earth: thou hast made the heauen and the earth.
37 17 Encline thine eare, O Lord, and heare: open

1 And when the King Hezekiah heard it, he thine eyes, O Lord, and see, and heare all the
rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and came wordesofSaneherib, whohathsenttoblaspheme
into the House of the Lord. 2 And he sent the liuing God. 18 Trueth it is, O Lord, that the
Eliakim the stewarde of the house, aud Shebna Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands, and
the chanceller, with the Elders of the Priestes, their countrey, 19 And haue cast their gods in