Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

10 And now is it without the LORD that I am come up against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11 And Eliakim said, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, pray, unto thy servants in the Aramaean tongue, for we understand it: and speak not unto us in the Jewish tongue, in-the ears of the people which are on the wall.

12 And Rabshakeh said, Is it to thy lord, and to thee, that my lord hath sent me, to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and drink their own water with you?

[*](3. ‘recorder’: or, ‘remembrancer,’ and so ver. 22,)[*](5. Many propose to read ‘Thou ’ altering a small letter to agree with the parallel passage in 2 Kings.)[*](7. Or, ‘and for that thou sayest to me....’)[*](11 ‘understand’: lit. ‘hear‘: so in LXX.)

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13 And Rabshakeh Stood, and cried with a great voice in the Jewish tongue, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the ἦ king of AsSyria