II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 400

dent of the Pa.!-ace, and Shebna. the Secretary, and the Chief Priests with them to Isaiah the Preacher, and son of Amoz, and they said to him: I`he King says this: ‘It is a time

of distress, and reproach, and deri- sion, to-day,——for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bear them! Has not vour EVER-LIVING GOD heard all me utterances of Rabshekah, whom the king of Ashur, his master, has sent to insult the GGD of LIFE, and abuse Him, with the speeches your EVER-1.1v1Nc; Gon has heard? So raise a prayer for the remnant 5 Thus the ministers of King Heze- kiah* related to Isaiah, and Isaiah replied to them: Szuiaifs Qizplg iu ¥{ab¤hnkuI3. You can say to your king, ‘The Fear not for the words you have heard spoken, with which the officers of the king

7 of Ashur have reviled Me. I will send a wind upon him, and he shall hear itsreport, and return to his own country, and fall by the sword in his iinbsbnlieb iizirgnis frmu §I2ru¤¤I2m. 8 Rabshakah consequently retreated, and met his king besieging Libnah, for he heard he had marched from

9 Lakish, because he had heard a re- port about Thirakhah, king of Kush, He was coming to make therefore he retreated. However, he sent messengers to

Say this to Hezekiah, king of judah, ‘Do not exalt your GOD one Whom you trust, saying, He will not give jerusalem to the hands of the king of Ashur}

11 Reflect how you have heard what the kings of Ashur have done to all the countries they devoted to conquest

12 ~—so shall you escape? ‘ Did the gods of the Nations deliver those who wor- shipped them from my forefathers? Gozan? and Kharan? or the children of Aden, who were in Thalasar?

13 Where is the king of Khamath? and PERIOD.--·II. KINGS. 19--23 the Cities of the Sefarvaim? Ina, or Hezekiah, however, took the letter

from the hands of the Ambassadors and read it. Then he went up to the House of the Evniz-rnvme, where Hezekiah spread it before the SU- PREME. (n.c. yro.) §z;zkiab’¤ §r¤grr. Hezekiah also prayed before the Evan-r.1v1No, and said: Evan -uv1No Gon of Israel!

You, seated among the Kerubim, are Gon alone of all the kingdoms ofthe earth. You made the Heavens, and the Earth. Ern1u·xAL~r.1ss! incline your ears and listen; open your eyes, EVER-L1vlNG, and see; and hear the words of Senakerib, which he has sent to insult the GOD of LIFE! Truly, Loan, the kings of Ashur have destroyed nations, and their countries; and iiungtheir gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but only the product of human hands, of wood and stone. But You, our EVER-L1v1NG Gon, can certainly save us from his hand, when all the kingdoms of the world will know that You are the LIVING GOD ;—··and You Isaiah - ben -Amoz also sent to Hezekiah to say: (ac. 710.) 16 x8 zo Thus says the LIVING GOD of

Israel, ‘Whe·n you prayed to Me about Senakerib, king of Ashur, I heard you.’ This is the reply that the EvnR—r.Iv1Ns gives to him: ®¤h'¤ lizplg in hits ilzhilzr. ‘At you the Virgin Daughter of 21 Zion laughs, ]erusalem’s Daughter shakes her head! Against whom is your libellous 22 insult ? Against whom do you raise your voice, And lift up your insolent eyes? Against the Holy of Israel. By your Arnbassadofs hand A ,23 You have insulted My Prince! ‘You said, ‘ I will ride in my chariot over the hill tops; Over Lebanon stride, and fell his tall cedars, And beautiful pines, And lodge at the side of the forest the king of Arfad? and the king of ' of Karmell 400