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SEPTEMBER 23
Has shaken her head behind your back! By the way which you came.” ’
23 “Whom have you reproached and 30 “This shall be a sign to you:
blasphemed? You shall eat this year such as grows of
Against whom have you raised your itself,
voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high? And the second year what springs from
the same;
Against the Holy One of Israel.
By your servants you have reproached
24 Also in the third year sow and reap,
the Lord, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of
And said, ‘By the multitude of my them.
31 And the remnant who have escaped of
chariots
I have come up to the height of the the house of Judah
mountains, Shall again take root downward,
To the limits of Lebanon; And bear fruit upward.
I will cut down its tall cedars 32 For out of Jerusalem shall go a
And its choice cypress trees; remnant,
I will enter its farthest height, And those who escape from Mount
To its fruitful forest. Zion.
25 I have dug and drunk water, The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do
And with the soles of my feet I have this.
dried up 33 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning
All the brooks of defense.’
the king of Assyria:
26
“Did you not hear long ago
How I made it, ‘He shall not come into this city,
From ancient times that I formed it? Nor shoot an arrow there,
Now I have brought it to pass, Nor come before it with shield,
That you should be Nor build a siege mound against it.
34 By the way that he came,
For crushing fortified cities into heaps
of ruins. By the same shall he return;
27 And he shall not come into this city,’
Therefore their inhabitants had little
power; Says the LORD.
35
They were dismayed and confounded; ‘For I will defend this city, to save it
They were as the grass of the field For My own sake and for My servant
And the green herb, David’s sake.’ ”
As the grass on the housetops 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out, and
And grain blighted before it is grown.
killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hun-
28 “But I know your dwelling place, dred and eighty-five thousand; and when peo-
Your going out and your coming in, ple arose early in the morning, there were the
37
And your rage against Me. corpses—all dead. So Sennacherib king of
29 Because your rage against Me and Assyria departed and went away, returned
your tumult home, and remained at Nineveh. Now it came
38
Have come up to My ears, to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of
Therefore I will put My hook in your Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech
nose and Sharezer struck him down with the sword;
And My bridle in your lips, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then
And I will turn you back Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

37:29 hook in your nose…bridle in your lips.
In judging Sennacherib,the Lord treated him as
an obstinate animal with a ring in his nose 37:36 the angel of the LORD. This was Isaiah’s
and/or a bridle in his mouth. Some ancient only use of a title that is frequent in the Old
sources indicate that captives were led before Testament, one referring to the Lord Himself.
a king by a cord attached to a hook or ring killed. Secular records also mention this mas-
through the upper lip and nose. Thus, he was sive slaughter of Assyrian troops, without not-
to be brought back to his own country. ing its supernatural nature, of course.

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