2 Kings 19 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Isaiah Encourages Hezekiah

(Isa 37:1–7 )

2Ki 19:1And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,

2Ki 19:2

2Ki 19:2and sendeth Eliakim, who is over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,

2Ki 19:3

2Ki 19:3and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

2Ki 19:4

2Ki 19:4'It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

2Ki 19:5

2Ki 19:5And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,

2Ki 19:6

2Ki 19:6and Isaiah saith to them, 'Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

2Ki 19:7

2Ki 19:7Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'

Sennacherib Defies God

(Isa 37:8–20 )

2Ki 19:8

2Ki 19:8And the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.

2Ki 19:9

2Ki 19:9And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, 'Lo, he hath come out to fight with thee;' and he turneth and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,

2Ki 19:10

2Ki 19:10'Thus do ye speak unto Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art trusting, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

2Ki 19:11

2Ki 19:11Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them; and thou art delivered!

2Ki 19:12

2Ki 19:12did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who are in Thelassar?

2Ki 19:13

2Ki 19:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'

Hezekiah's Prayer

2Ki 19:14

2Ki 19:14And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.

2Ki 19:15

2Ki 19:15And Hezekiah prayeth before Jehovah, and saith, 'O Jehovah, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou art God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

2Ki 19:16

2Ki 19:16Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.

2Ki 19:17

2Ki 19:17'Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

2Ki 19:18

2Ki 19:18and have put their gods into fire, for they are no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.

2Ki 19:19

2Ki 19:19And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou art Jehovah God -- Thyself alone.'

God's Answer through Isaiah

(Isa 37:21–35 )

2Ki 19:20

2Ki 19:20And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:

2Ki 19:21

2Ki 19:21this is the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: 'Trampled on thee -- laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head -- Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?

2Ki 19:22

2Ki 19:22Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes -- Against the Holy One of Israel!

2Ki 19:23

2Ki 19:23By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains -- The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

2Ki 19:24

2Ki 19:24I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

2Ki 19:25

2Ki 19:25Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps are fenced cities,

2Ki 19:26

2Ki 19:26And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!

2Ki 19:27

2Ki 19:27And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

2Ki 19:28

2Ki 19:28Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.

2Ki 19:29

2Ki 19:29And this to thee is the sign, Food of the year is the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

2Ki 19:30

2Ki 19:30And it hath continued -- The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left -- to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.

2Ki 19:31

2Ki 19:31For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

2Ki 19:32

2Ki 19:32Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.

2Ki 19:33

2Ki 19:33In the way that he cometh in -- In it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah --

2Ki 19:34

2Ki 19:34And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'

(Isa 37:36–38; 2Ch 32:20–23 )

2Ki 19:35

2Ki 19:35And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

2Ki 19:36

2Ki 19:36And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;

2Ki 19:37

2Ki 19:37and it cometh to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adramelech and Sharezar his sons have smitten him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

2 Kings 19 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Isaiah Encourages Hezekiah

Sennacherib Defies God

Hezekiah's Prayer

God's Answer through Isaiah

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