The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:18 (NIV)

‘It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:19 (NIV)

They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:20 (NIV)

Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God."

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:21 (NIV)

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:
because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:22 (NIV)

this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

‘Virgin Daughter Zion
despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head as you flee.

 

[phil36]

ISAIAH 37:23

“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:25 (NIV)

I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:26 (NIV)

“Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:27 (NIV)

Their people, drained of power,
are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,
like grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched before it grows up.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:28 (NIV)

‘But I know where you are
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:29 (NIV)

Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:30 (NIV)

“This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:31 (NIV)

Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:32

For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:33

“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:34 (NIV)

By the way that he came he will return;
he will not enter this city,’ declares the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:35 (NIV)

‘I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!’

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:36 (NIV)

Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:37 (NIV)

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.