II Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 401

19-24 THE MONARCHICAL PERIOD.—~·II. KINGS. .20--·x0 26 28 33 34 35 I have dug and have drunk of the sparkling waters, And have dried with my sole all the meats of the Forts! ‘Have you not heard from afar, of My actions aforetime? How I planned to make great cities desolate heaps, Made them weak to your hand, and their people like field grass,

And green weeds on a roof scorched before they are grown ?

All your campings, and march,and advancing I knew, And your rage against Me ;···yes, your fury at Me, And your roaring has come, to My ears! So My hook I will put in your nose, and My bit in your jaws, And by the way that you came, lead you back! ‘ For your proof, eat the se1f—sown this year, —- and next year the same !—-— And the third, sow, and reap, dress the vines, and eat fruits; For ]udah’s House shall grow up from its fragments; B-ranches spring from the root, and bear fruit up aloft; From jerusalem fragments shall go, and escape from Mount Zion, The power of the LORD will do this. ‘ Ashur’s king shall not come to this town, says the LORD, Nor shoot there an arrow, nor lift up a shield, Nor heap up a rampart against it! By the way he advanced, by that way he shall go, And not come to this city, the LURD has declared, I shield it, and save it, because of Myself, And David the Servant to ME. .c. 710.) §lsguz bestrugz itali- 37 sbakalfs §rmg. And it occurred that in the same

nightta Messenger from the EVER- L1v1NG came and struck in the camp of Ashur a hundred and seventy—f1ve thousand! When they awoke in the morning they found all these dead corpses. Then Senakerib king of Ashur, struck, tents, marched, and returned to Nineveh, where, when praying in the House of Nisrok his god, Adramelek and Shartzar, his sons, assailed him with the sword, and escaped to the district of Ararat, and Aserhadon his son reigned after him. (ac. 713.) Qzgzkiulfz Sllnzss. About this time Hezekiah had a 20 serious sickness, so Isaiah came to Thus says the EVER- L1v1NG, ‘Arrange for your family, for you will die and not live! He in consequence turned his face

to the wall, and prayed to the EVER- L1v1NG, saying: ‘I entreat You, Evan-Lxvmc, to

remember how I walked before You in truth, and with a thankful heart, and the good I have done in Your Then Hezekiah wept with much weeping. (ac. 713.) lnnger {ifs grantee Qzgzkialy. And it happened that Isaiah had

not gone halfway to the town, when the message of the Even - uvmc came to him to say: ‘Return and say to Hezekiah, the

I`hus says the Evnn—L1vn~:c Gov of David, your I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears ;-——I will cure you. Three days hence you shall go up to the House of the EVER-L1v1NG! I will also add to your days fifteen years, and I will deliver you from the hand of the King of Ashur, with this city, and I will protect this city, be- cause of Myself, and because of David Take a plaster of

figs, and apply it to the indammation, and he will live! in What ‘

evidence is there that the EVER- LIVING will cure me, and that I shall three days hence go up to the House of the Evan-mvrnc? (ac. 713.) dbz §ba¤¤hr guns lmrk @2n yzgrzzs. This is the

evidence from the EvER—L1v1NG to you, that the EVER-LIVING will fulfil the promise He has promised: the shadow that has gone upwards ten degrees, shall it turn back the ten degrees it has risen} Hezekiah, however answered him, 10 401