The Book of ISAIAH - Chapter Thirty Six

Sennacherib threatens Jerusalem

1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field, 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.

4 The field commander said to them, ‘Tell Hezekiah:

‘“This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: on what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have counsel and might for war – but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 But if you say to me, ‘We are depending on the Lord our God’– isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

8 ‘“Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses – if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.”’

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, ‘Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.’

12 But the commander replied, ‘Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall – who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?’

13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, ‘Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

16 ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig-tree and drink water from your own cistern, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own – a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 ‘Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, “The Lord will deliver us.” Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’

21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, ‘Do not answer him.’

22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.

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The Book of ISAIAH - Chapter Thirty Five

Joy of the redeemed

1 

The desert and the parched land will be glad;

    the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.

Like the crocus, 

2 

it will burst into bloom;

    it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.

The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,

    the splendour of Carmel and Sharon;

they will see the glory of the Lord,

    the splendour of our God.

3 

Strengthen the feeble hands,

    steady the knees that give way;

4 

say to those with fearful hearts,

    ‘Be strong, do not fear;

your God will come,

    he will come with vengeance;

with divine retribution

    he will come to save you.’

5 

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened

    and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

6 

Then will the lame leap like a deer,

    and the mute tongue shout for joy.

Water will gush forth in the wilderness

    and streams in the desert.

7 

The burning sand will become a pool,

    the thirsty ground bubbling springs.

In the haunts where jackals once lay,

    grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

8 

And a highway will be there;

    it will be called the Way of Holiness;

    it will be for those who walk on that Way.

The unclean will not journey on it;

    wicked fools will not go about on it.

9 

No lion will be there,

    nor any ravenous beast;

    they will not be found there.

But only the redeemed will walk there,

10 

    and those the Lord has rescued will return.

They will enter Zion with singing;

    everlasting joy will crown their heads.

Gladness and joy will overtake them,

    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

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The Book of ISAIAH - Chapter Thirty Four

Judgment against the nations

1 

Come near, you nations, and listen;

    pay attention, you peoples!

Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,

    the world, and all that comes out of it!

2 

The Lord is angry with all nations;

    his wrath is on all their armies.

He will totally destroy them,

    he will give them over to slaughter.

3 

Their slain will be thrown out,

    their dead bodies will stink;

    the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

4 

All the stars in the sky will be dissolved

    and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;

all the starry host will fall

    like withered leaves from the vine,

    like shrivelled figs from the fig-tree.

5 

My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;

    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,

    the people I have totally destroyed.

6 

The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,

    it is covered with fat –

the blood of lambs and goats,

    fat from the kidneys of rams.

For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah

    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 

And the wild oxen will fall with them,

    the bull calves and the great bulls.

Their land will be drenched with blood,

    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

8 

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,

    a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

9 

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,

    her dust into burning sulphur;

    her land will become blazing pitch!

10 

It will not be quenched night or day;

    its smoke will rise for ever.

From generation to generation it will lie desolate;

    no one will ever pass through it again.

11 

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it;

    the great owl and the raven will nest there.

God will stretch out over Edom

    the measuring line of chaos

    and the plumb-line of desolation.

12 

Her nobles will have nothing there 

to be called a kingdom,

    all her princes will vanish away.

13 

Thorns will overrun her citadels,

    nettles and brambles her strongholds.

She will become a haunt for jackals,

    a home for owls.

14 

Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,

    and wild goats will bleat to each other;

there the night creatures will also lie down

    and find for themselves places of rest.

15 

The owl will nest there and lay eggs,

    she will hatch them, and care for her young

    under the shadow of her wings;

there also the falcons will gather,

    each with its mate.

16 

Look in the scroll of the Lord and read:

None of these will be missing,

    not one will lack her mate.

For it is his mouth that has given the order,

    and his Spirit will gather them together.

17 

He allots their portions;

    his hand distributes them by measure.

They will possess it for ever

    and dwell there from generation to generation.

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The Book of ISAIAH - Chapter Thirty Three

Distress and help

1 

Woe to you, destroyer,

    you who have not been destroyed!

Woe to you, betrayer,

    you who have not been betrayed!

When you stop destroying,

    you will be destroyed;

when you stop betraying,

    you will be betrayed.

2 

Lord, be gracious to us;

    we long for you.

Be our strength every morning,

    our salvation in time of distress.

3 

At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee;

    when you rise up, the nations scatter.

4 

Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;

    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

5 

The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;

    he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.

6 

He will be the sure foundation for your times,

    a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;

    the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.

7 

Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets;

    the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

8 

The highways are deserted,

    no travellers are on the roads.

The treaty is broken,

    its witnesses are despised,

    no one is respected.

9 

The land dries up and wastes away,

    Lebanon is ashamed and withers;

Sharon is like the Arabah,

    and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.

10 

‘Now will I arise,’ says the Lord.

    ‘Now will I be exalted;

    now will I be lifted up.

11 

You conceive chaff,

    you give birth to straw;

    your breath is a fire that consumes you.

12 

The peoples will be burned to ashes;

    like cut thorn-bushes they will be set ablaze.’

13 

You who are far away, hear what I have done;

    you who are near, acknowledge my power!

14 

The sinners in Zion are terrified;

    trembling grips the godless:

‘Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?

    Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?’

15 

Those who walk righteously

    and speak what is right,

who reject gain from extortion

    and keep their hands from accepting bribes,

who stop their ears against plots of murder

    and shut their eyes against contemplating evil –

16 

they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,

    whose refuge will be the mountain fortress.

Their bread will be supplied,

    and water will not fail them.

17 

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty

    and view a land that stretches afar.

18 

In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror:

    ‘Where is that chief officer?

Where is the one who took the revenue?

    Where is the officer in charge of the towers?’

19 

You will see those arrogant people no more,

    people whose speech is obscure,

    whose language is strange and incomprehensible.

20 

Look on Zion, the city of our festivals;

    your eyes will see Jerusalem,

    a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved;

its stakes will never be pulled up,

    nor any of its ropes broken.

21 

There the Lord will be our Mighty One.

    It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams.

No galley with oars will ride them,

    no mighty ship will sail them.

22 

For the Lord is our judge,

    the Lord is our lawgiver,

the Lord is our king;

    it is he who will save us.

23 

Your rigging hangs loose:

    the mast is not held secure,

    the sail is not spread.

Then an abundance of spoils will be divided

    and even the lame will carry off plunder.

24 

No one living in Zion will say, ‘I am ill’;

    and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.

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