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He shall not enter into this city;

Nor shall he shoot an arrow there;

Nor shall he present a shield before it;
Nor shall he cast up a mound against it.

By the way, in which he came, by the same shall he
return;

And into this city shall he not come; saith JEHOVAH
And I will protect this city to deliver it;

For mine own sake, and for the sake of David my

servant.

And the angel of JEHOVAH, went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred and fourscore and five thousand men and when the people arose early in 36 the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Then

Senacherib king of Assyria decamped, and departed, and 37 returned; and dwelt at Nineveh. And as he was worshipping in the temple of Nisroc his god, Adramelec and Sharetser, his sons, smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

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AT that time Hezekiah was seized with a mortal sickness and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amots, came unto him and said unto him: Thus saith JEHOVAH; Give orders concerning the affairs of thy family; for 2 thou must die; thou shalt no longer live. Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall; and made his suppli3 cation to Jehovah. And he said: I beseech thee, O JEHOVAH, remember now how I have endeavoured to walk before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart; and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And He4 zekiah wept, and lamented grievously. Now, [before Isaiah was gone out into the middle court], the word of JEHOVAH came unto him, saying: Go [back], and say 5 unto Hezekiah: Thus saith JEHOVAH, the God of David thy father; I have heard thy supplication; I have seen thy tears. Behold [I will heal thee; and on the third day thou shalt go up into the house of JEHOVAH. And] 6 I will add unto thy days fifteen years. And I will de

liver thee, and this city, from the hand of the king of 22 Assyria; and I will protect this city. And [Hezekiah said: By what sign shall I know that I shall go up into 7 the house of JEHOVAH? And Isaiah said:] This shall be the sign unto thee from JEHOVAH, that JEHOVAH will 8 bring to effect this word which he hath spoken. Behold, I will bring back the shadow of the degrees, by which the sun is gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. And the sun returned backward ten degrees, on the degrees by which it had gone down. 21 And Isaiah said: Let them take a lump of figs: and they bruised them, and applied them to the boil; and he recovered.

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THE WRITING OF HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.

I said, when my days where just going to be cut off, I shall pass through the gates of the grave;

I am deprived of the residue of my years!

I said, I shall no more see JEHOVAH in the land of the living!

I shall no longer behold man, with the inhabitants of the world!

My habitation is taken away, and is removed from me, like a shepherd's tent:

My life is cut off, as by the weaver; he will sever me from the loom;

In the course of the day thou wilt finish my web.

I roared until the morning, like the lion;

So did he break to pieces all my bones.

Like the swallow, like the crane, did I twitter;
I made a moaning like the dove.

Mine eyes fail with looking upward :

O Lord, contend thou for me; be thou my surety.What shall I say? he hath given me a promise, and he hath performed it.

Through the rest of my years will I reflect on this bitterness of my soul.

For this cause shall it be declared, O JEHOVAH, concerning thee,

That thou hast revived my spirit;

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That thou hast restored my health, and prolonged my
life.

Behold, my anguish is changed into ease!
Thou hast rescued my soul from perdition;
Yea thou hast cast behind my back all my sins.
Verily the grave shall not give thanks unto thee;
death shall not praise thee;

They that go down into the pit shall not await thy
truth;

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day;

The father to the children shall make known thy faithfulness.

JEHOVAH was present to save me: therefore will we sing our songs to the harp,

All the days of our life, in the house of JEHOVAH.

AT that time Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan. king of Babylon, sent letters, and ambassadors, and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been 2 sick, and was recovered. And Hezekiah was rejoiced at their arrival: and he showed them his magazines, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and his whole arsenal, and all that was contained in his treasures: there was not any thing in his house, and in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.

3 And Isaiah the prophet came unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: What say these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said: They are come to me from a distant country; from Babylon. 4 And he said: What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah said: They have seen every thing in my house there is nothing in my treasures, which I have 5 not shown them. And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah: Hear thou the word of JEHOVAH God of Hosts. 6 Behold, the day shall come, when all that is in thy house, and that thy fathers have treasured up unto this day, shall be carried away to Babylon: there shall not 7 any thing be left, saith JEHOVAH. And of thy sons, which shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of

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That her warfare is fulfilled; that the expiation of her iniquity is accepted;

That she shall receive at the hand of JEHOVAH

[Blessings] double to the punishment of all her sins.

A voice crieth: In the wilderness prepare ye the way of JEHOVAH!

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God! 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill be brought low;

And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places a smooth plain:

5 And the glory of JEHOVAH shall be revealed ;

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And all flesh shall see together the salvation of our God:
For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath spoken it.

A voice sayeth: Proclaim! And I said, What shall
I proclaim?

All flesh is grass, and all its glory like the flower of the
field:

7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;

When the wind of JEHOVAH bloweth upon it.
Verily this people is grass:

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But the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Get thee up upon a high mountain, O daughter that bringest glad tidings to Sion:

Exalt thy voice with strength, O daughter that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem.

Exalt it; be not afraid:

Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Behold, the Lord JEHOVAH shall come against the

strong one,

And his arm shall prevail over him:

Behold, his reward is with him, and the recompense of

his work before him.

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In his arm shall he gather up the lambs,

And shall bear them in his bosom; the nursing ewes shall he gently lead.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand;

And hath meted out the heavens by his span;

And hath comprehended the dust of the earth in a tierce; And hath weighed in scales the mountains, and the hills in a balance?

13 Who hath directed the spirit of JEHOVAH;

And, as one of his council, hath informed him?

14 Whom hath he consulted, that he should instruct him, And teach him the path of judgment;

That he should impart to him science,

And inform him in the way of understanding? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop from the bucket; As the small dust of the balance shall they be accounted: Behold, the islands he taketh up as. an atom;

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for the fire; Nor his beasts sufficient for the burnt-offering.

17 All the nations are as nothing before him;

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They are esteemed by him as less than nought, and vanity.

To whom therefore will ye liken God?
And what is the model of resemblance, that

pare for him?

19 The workman casteth an image;

And the smith overlayeth it with plates of gold;

And forgeth for it chains of silver.

20 He that cannot afford a costly oblation, chooseth a piece

of wood that will not rot;

He procureth a skilful artist

To erect an image, which shall not be moved.

21 Will ye not know? will ye not hear?

Hath it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have ye not understood it from the foundations of the

earth?

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