Isaiah 37:21–27

Sennacherib’s Fall

37:21–38pp—2Ki 19:20–37; 2Ch 32:20–21

21 Then Isaiah son of Amozm sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

“Virgin Daughtern Ziono

despises and mocks you.

Daughter Jerusalem

tosses her headp as you flee.

23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?q

Against whom have you raised your voicer

and lifted your eyes in pride?s

Against the Holy Onet of Israel!

24 By your messengers

you have ridiculed the Lord.

And you have said,

‘With my many chariotsu

I have ascended the heights of the mountains,

the utmost heightsv of Lebanon.w

I have cut down its tallest cedars,

the choicest of its junipers.x

I have reached its remotest heights,

the finest of its forests.

25 I have dug wells in foreign landsc

and drunk the water there.

With the soles of my feet

I have dried upy all the streams of Egypt.z’

26 “Have you not heard?

Long ago I ordaineda it.

In days of old I plannedb it;

now I have brought it to pass,

that you have turned fortified cities

into piles of stone.c

27 Their people, drained of power,

are dismayed and put to shame.

They are like plants in the field,

like tender green shoots,

like grassd sprouting on the roof,e

scorchedd before it grows up.