zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this
city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city,
saith the LORD.
35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and
fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they wereall
dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land
of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto
him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not
live.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and
with a perfect heart, and have done that which isgood in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend
this city.
7 And this shall bea sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath
spoken;
8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of
Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone
down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his
sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the
residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, eventhe LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no
more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a
weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day evento night wilt thou make
an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day evento night
wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane ora swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with
lookingupward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all
my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things menlive, and in all these things isthe life of my spirit: so wilt thou
recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered itfrom
the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can notcelebrate thee: they that go down into the pit

cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I dothis day: the father to the children shall
make known thy truth.
20 The LORD was readyto save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed
instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay itfor a plaister upon the boil, and
he shall recover.
22 Hezekiah also had said, What isthe sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present
to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all
that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men?
and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country
unto me, evenfrom Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that isin mine
house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:
6 Behold, the days come, that all that isin thine house, and thatwhich thy fathers have laid up
in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and
they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good isthe word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said
moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that
her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight
in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see ittogether: for the mouth
of the LORD hath spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh isgrass, and all the goodliness
thereof isas the flower of the field:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely
the people isgrass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that
bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift itup, be not afraid; say unto the
cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his
reward iswith him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry
themin his bosom, andshall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the
span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in

scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or beinghis counsellor hath taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and whoinstructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment,
and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations areas a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the
balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon isnot sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him areas nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and
vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and
casteth silver chains.
20 He that isso impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree thatwill not rot; he
seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, thatshall not be moved.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye
not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It ishe that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof areas
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take
root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind
shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their
host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he isstrong
in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my
judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, thatthe everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of
the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there isno searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that haveno might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew theirstrength; they shall mount up with wings
as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; andthey shall walk, and not faint.
1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew theirstrength: let them come
near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous manfrom the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations
before him, and made himrule over kings? he gave themas the dust to his sword, andas driven
stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, andpassed safely; evenby the way thathe had not gone with his feet.
4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the
first, and with the last; I amhe.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbour; and every onesaid to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, andhe that smootheth withthe hammer him that
smote the anvil, saying, It isready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, thatit should
not be moved.
8 But thou, Israel, artmy servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.