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ye fire: for they were no gods, but the worke of into this citie, nor shoote an arrow there, nor
mans hands, euen wood or stone: therefore they come before it with shield, nor cast a mount
destroyed them. 20 Nowe therefore, O Lord our against it. 34 By the same way that he came, he
God, saue thou vs out of his hand, that all the shall returne, and not come into this citie, saith
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kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou the Lord. For I will defend this citie to saue it,
for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids
onely art the Lord. 21 Then Isaiah the sonne sake. 36 Then the Angel of the Lord went out,
of Amoz sent vnto Hezekiah, saying, Thus sayth and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth,
the Lord God of Israel, Because thou hast prayed
vnto me, concerning Saneherib king of Asshur, fourescore, and fiue thousand: so when they
22 This is the worde that the Lord hath spoken arose early in the morning, beholde, they were
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against him, the virgine, the daughter of Zion, all dead corpses. So Saneherib king of Asshur
hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorne: departed, and went away and returned and dwelt
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the daughter of Ierusalem, hath shaken her head at Nineueh. And as he was in the temple
at thee. 23 Whome hast thou railed on and blas- worshipping of Nisroch his god, Adramelech and
phemed? and against whome hast thou exalted Sharezer his sonnes slewe him with the sword,
and they escaped into the land of Ararat: and
thy voyce, and lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his steade.
against the holy one of Israel. 24 By thy seruants
hast thou railed on the Lord, and sayd, By the 38
multitude of my charets I am come vp to the top 1 About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto the
of the mountaines to the sides of Lebanon, and death, and the Prophet Isaiah sonne of Amoz
will cut downe the hie cedars thereof, and the came vnto him, and sayd vnto him, Thus sayth
faire firre trees thereof, and I will goe vp to the
heightes of his top and to the forest of his fruitfull the Lord, Put thine house in an order, for thou
shalt dye, and not liue.
Then Hezekiah turned
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places. 25 I haue digged and drunke the waters, his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, And
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and with the plant of my feete haue I dryed all saide, I beseeche thee, Lord, remember nowe
the riuers closed in. 26 Hast thou not heard howe howe I haue walked before thee in trueth, and
I haue of olde time made it, and haue formed it with a perfite heart, and haue done that which is
long ago? and should I now bring it, that it should good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore. Then
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be destroyed, and layde on ruinous heapes, as came the worde of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
cities defensed? 27 Whose inhabitants haue small 5 Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord
power, and are afrayd and confounded: they are God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer,
like the grasse of the field and greene herbe, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy
or grasse on the house tops, or corne blassed dayes fifteene yeeres. And I will deliuer thee out
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afore it be growen. 28 But I know thy dwelling, of the hand of the King of Asshur, and this citie:
and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy for I will defende this citie. And this signe shalt
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fury against me. 29 Because thou ragest against thou haue of ye Lord, that ye Lord will do this
me, and thy tumult is come vnto mine eares, thing that he hath spoken, Beholde, I will bring
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therefore will I put mine hooke in thy nostrels,
and my bridle in thy lips, and wil bring thee backe againe the shadowe of the degrees (whereby it
againe the same way thou camest. 30 And this is gone downe in the diall of Ahaz by the sunne)
shalbe a signe vnto thee, O Hezekiah, Thou shalt ten degrees backeward: so the sunne returned by
eate this yeere such as groweth of it selfe: and tenne degrees, by the which degrees it was gone
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the second yeere, such things as growe without downe. The writing of Hezekiah King of Iudah,
sowing: and in the third yeere, sowe ye and when he had bene sicke, and was recouered of
I saide in the cutting off of
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his sickenesse.
reape, and plant vineyards, and eate the fruite my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue:
thereof. 31 And the remnant that is escaped of the I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres. 11 I
house of Iudah, shall againe take roote downward said, I shall not see the Lord, euen the Lord in
and beare fruite vpward. 32 For out of Ierusalem the land of the liuing: I shall see man no more
shall goe a remnant, and they that escape out among the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine
of mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes habitation is departed, and is remoued from me,
shall doe this. 33 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, like a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer
concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter my life: he will cut me off from the height: from