Isaias

Septuaginta

Septuaginta. The Book of Isaiah According to the Septuagint (Codex Alexandrinus). Ottley, Richard, Rusden, editor. Cambridge: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1904.

XXXVII. 1 And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard (it), he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about him, and went up into the house of the Lord.

2 And he sent Eliakim, the steward, and Shebna, the scribe, and the elders of the priests, with sackcloth about them, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

3 And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, Today is a day ἢ of affliction, and reproach, and reproof, and anger; for the pang is come upon her that travaileth, and she hath not strength to bring forth.

4 The Lord God hear the words of Rabshakeh, with which the king of the Assyrians sent him to reproach the living God, and to reproach with the words which the. Lord thy God hath heard; [and thou shalt pray to thy Lord] concerning these that are left.

5 And the servants of the king came to Isaiah

6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your lord, Thus saith the Lord, Fear not thou for the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the envoys of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me.

7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and return to his land, and he shall fall by the sword in his land.

8 And Rabshakeh returned, and came upon the king besieging Libnah: and the king of the Assyrians heard

9 ThatTirhakah, king of the Ethiopians, had gone out to besiege him; and when he heard it, he turned away, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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10 Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall be given over into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

11 Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have -done to all the earth, how they have destroyed it?

12 Did the gods of the nations, they whom my fathers de- stroyed, deliver them? Gozan, and Haran, and [Rezeph], which are in the land of [Telassar]?

13 Where are the kings of Hamath, and of Arpad? and of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

14 And Hezekiah took the book from the messengers, and opened it before the Lord.

15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,

16 O Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world; thou hast made heaven and earth.

17 Hearken, Ο Lord; look upon us, Lord, and see the Ezrdds of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the living God.

18 For in truth, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and their country,

19 And cast their idols into the ﬁre; for they were no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and destroyed them.

20 But do thou, O Lord our God, save us outof their hand, gag. every kingdom of the earth may know that thou alone art God.