Yshá`Yâhuw (Isaiah) 37

ChizqiyYâ ́huw's petition and Yâ-hwéh's response

1. And it was as ChizqiyYâ ́huw the king listened, that he tore his garments and he covered himself in sackcloth, and he entered the house of Yâ-hwéh. 2. And he dispatched ’Elyâqíym who was over the house, and Shevnâ ́h the scribe and the elders of the priests, dressed in sackcloth, to Yshá'Yâhuw the son of ’Âmówts, the preilluminator; 3. And they said to him: this says ChizqiyYâ ́huw, "This day is a day of distress, and rebuke, and contempt, like when sons come as far as the point of birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth! 4. Perhaps Yâ-hwéh your Power will heed the words of the chief of irrigation that the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) his sovereign has sent to taunt the living Power, though He will rebuke them for the words that Yâ-hwéh your Power heard, so raise a prayer for the surviving remnant!" 5. So the servants of ChizqiyYâ ́huw the king came to Yshá'Yâhuw, 6. And Yshá'Yâhuw said this to them: "So shall ye say to your sovereign – thus says Yâ-hwéh: 'Do not be afraid due to the aspect of the words that you heard, with which the retainers of the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) have reviled Me. 7. Here I am, using a breath on him, and he shall hear a report and he will return to his land [foreshadow: Dâ ́niyyë ́’l 11:44, ZkharYâ ́hu 5:6-11, 2 Thessaloníkeans 2:8], and I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his land.’ [Foreshadow of slaying of 7th head: Disclosure 13:14, YirmYâ ́huw 50:31-32] 8. So the chief of irrigation returned and he found out that the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) was engaged in battle against Livnâ ́h, as he had heard as he was departing from Lâkhíysh, 9. And he heard about Tirhâ ́qâh, the king of Kuwsh, saying, 'He has marched out to wage war against you', So he heeded and he dispatched envoys to ChizqiyYâ ́huw, saying: 10. "Say this to ChizqiyYâ ́huw, the king of Yâhuwthâ ́h," saying, 'Let not your Power on Whom you trust deceive you, saying 'Yruwshâláim shall not be given into the hand of the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr)', 11. Look! You have heard yourself what the kings of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) have done to all of the countries, utterly destroying them, so might you be delivered? 12. Did the mighty ones of the heathen masses that my forefathers destroyed – Gowzâ ́n, or Chârâ ́n, or Rétseph, or the sons of 'Ë ́then that are in Tlassâ ́r – deliver them? 13. Where is the king of Chamâ ́th, or the king of ’Arpâ ́th, or the king of the city of Çpharwâ ́yim, Hëná, or 'Iuwâ ́h?'" 14. So ChizqiyYâ ́huw took the letters from the hand of the envoys and he read them aloud, and he ascended to the house of Yâ-hwéh, and ChizqiyYâ ́huw spread it out before Yâ-hwéh; 15. And ChizqiyYâ ́huw prayed to Yâ-hwéh, saying, 16. "Yâ-hwéh the Upholder of all, the Power of Yisrâ’ë ́l, Who is seated on the Kruvíym: You alone are It, the Power, for all of the kingdoms of the earth, You are Who made the heavens and the earth. 17. Incline Your ear, O Yâ-hwéh, and hear! Open Your eyes, O Yâ-hwéh, and see! And hear all of the words of Çanchëríyv that he has sent to taunt the living Power!

Certainly O Yâ-hwéh

1. Certainly O Yâ-hwéh, the kings of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) have laid waste all of the countries and their lands, 19. And they have given their mighty ones into the fire, because they were not mighty ones, rather the works of the hands of mankind – wood and stone – so they destroyed them. 20. So now Yâ-hwéh our Power, deliver us from his hand so every kingdom of the earth shall know that You alone are Yâ-hwéh (He causes to be/ exist)!" 21. So He sent Yshá'Yâhuw the son of ’Âmówts to ChizqiyYâ ́huw saying, "Thus says Yâ-hwéh the Power of Yisrâ’ë ́l, that 'You have prayed to Me about Çanchëríyv the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr). 22. This is the word that Yâ-hwéh has spoken concerning him: The virgin Daughter of Tsiyyówn has regarded you with contempt, she has ridiculed you! The Daughter of Yruwshâláim shakes her head after you! 23. Who is it you have taunted and you reviled? And against Whom did you raise your voice and lifted your eyes proudly? Against the Pure One of Yisrâ’ë ́l!" 24. By the hand of your servants you taunted my Sovereign, and you said, "By means of my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the slopes of the Whiteness (Lvânówn), and I have cut down the tallness of its cedars, the choicest of its pines, and I have invaded the end of the heights of the thickets of its garden! 25. I have dug wells myself and I have drunk water, and in the treading of my footsteps I have dried up all of the streams of Entrenchments (Mitsráyim) (246)". 26. Haven't you heard about how I worked it from long ago, from the days of antiquity, and I planned it? Now I have brought it to pass, and you were to smash the fortified cities into ruined piles of rubble, 27. And their inhabitants were to be shorthanded, panicked and ashamed. They are the greenery of the field and the blades of the tender young grass, the quickly perishing herbs of the rooftops, and of the fields before they grow crops (247); 28. And where you dwell, and your comings and your goings I know well, even of your rage against Me, 29. since your rage against me and your insolence has ascended to My ears; So I shall put My nose-ring into your nose and My bridle bit between your lips and I shall make you return by the same way that you came on!" 30. And this is the sign for you [ChizqiyYâ ́huw]: To eat this year what grows on its own, and during the second year, what sprouts of itself without replanting, but during the third year, sow and ye shall reap, and plant vineyards and you shall eat their fruits; 31. And the escaped remnant of the house of Yâhuwthâ ́h that survives shall again take root downwards, and shall produce fruit upwards; 32. Because from Yruwshâláim shall emerge a remnant, even an escaped remnant from Mount Tsiyyówn! The zealous ardor of Yâ-hwéh the Upholder of all is what shall accomplish this." 33. Therefore thus says Yâ-hwéh concerning the king of Successful One (’Ashshúwr): "He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow at it, nor shall he raise a shield against her, nor shall he pour a mound against her. 34. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and into this city he shall not enter," declares Yâ-hwéh, 35. And I shall defend this city to rescue her for My own sake and for the sake of Dâwíth, My servant." 36. And the Envoy of Yâ-hwéh went out and He slew in the encampment of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) a hundred eighty-five thousand; and they arose early in the morning, and look! All of them were dead corpses! 37. So Çanchëríyv the King of Successful One (’Ashshúwr) pulled out and he departed and he returned, and he remained in Niynwë ́h; 38. And he was prostrating himself in homage at the house of Niçrókh his mighty ones, and ’Athramélekh and Sar’étser, his sons, slew him by the sword, and they, they escaped to the land of ’Arârâ ́ţ, and ’Ë ́çar-Chadón, his son, became king in his place.

(246) Interpretation: ’Ashshúwr dried up Mitsráyim's influence, especially its false religions, but thought they made their own power. This is a foreshadow of how Roman Catholicism's Successful One will pride himself on how it will dry up entrenched Protestantism's influence to fail when it comes up against the virgin chosen ones.
(247) Interpretation: ’Ashshúwr thought they were felling the greatest of them, but they were merely weeding.

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