v21 Isaiah said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.”
v22 Hezekiah said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”
is ch 39
v1 At that time Merodach-baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and was recovered.
v2 Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah showed them not.
is ch 54
v1 Sing, O barren, that did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife.
v2 Enlarge the place of your tent; let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
v3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
v4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither shall you be confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
v5 For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
v6 The Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth when you were refused.
v7 For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies I will gather you.
v8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you.
v9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
v10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the Lord that has mercy on you.
v11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
is ch 34
v2 The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
v3 Their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
v4 All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
v5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: it shall come upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to judgment.
v6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
v7 The unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
v8 It is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
v9 And the streams shall be turned into pitch, and the dust into brimstone, and the land shall become burning pitch.
v10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
v11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
v12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
v13 Thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
v14 The wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
v15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
v16 Seek you out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
is ch 35
v1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.
v2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.
v3 Strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
v4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.
v5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
v6 Then shall the lame leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
v7 The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
v8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it.
v9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon; the redeemed shall walk there.
v10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
is ch 36
v1 It came to pass in the 14th year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against the fenced cities of Judah and took them.
v2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto King Hezekiah with a great army. He stood in the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
v3 Then came unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
v4 Rabshakeh said, “What confidence is this wherein you trust?”
v5 “On whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?”
v6 “You trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh to all that trust in him.”
v7 “But if you say, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away?”
v8 “Now therefore give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you 2000 horses, if you be able on your part to set riders upon them.”
v9 “How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?”
v10 “Am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said unto me, Go up against this land and destroy it.”
v11 Then said Eliakim to Rabshakeh, “Speak in the Syrian language, for we understand it; speak not in the Hebrew language in the ears of the people that are in the wall.”
v12 Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you?”
v13 Rabshakeh cried, “Hear you the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.”
v14 “Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.”
v15 “Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord shall surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
v16 “Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and eat every one of his own vine and fig tree, and drink every one of his own cistern.”
v17 “Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.”
v18 “Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord shall deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”
v19 “Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?”
v20 They held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, Answer him not.
v22 Then came Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
is ch 37
v1 When Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
v2 He sent Eliakim to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
v3 They said unto him, “This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not enough strength to bring forth.”
v4 “Wherefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”
v5 Isaiah said, “Be not afraid of the words.”
v6 “I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”
v20 Now therefore, O Lord, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the Lord, even you only.
v22 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning the king of Assyria: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
v23 “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.”
v24 “By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the heights of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon. I will cut down the tall cedars and the choice fir trees.”
v25 “I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.”
v26 “You should have heard that I have purposed to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.”
v27 Their inhabitants were of small power; they were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field, as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
v28 “I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.”
v29 “Because your rage against me is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.”
v30 This shall be a sign unto you: you shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
v31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
v32 Out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of Mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
v33 Thus says 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.
v34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city.
v35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
v36 The angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 180,000. When they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
v37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.
v38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword. They escaped to the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
is ch 38
v1 In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and Isaiah came unto him, and said, “Thus says the Lord, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.”
v2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord.
v3 He said, “Remember now, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.”
v5 Go and say to Hezekiah, “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears: behold, I will add unto your days fifteen years.”
v6 “I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.”
v7 “And this shall be a sign unto you from the Lord.”
v8 “Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.