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And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, and reproach, and contempt. For sons have come to the breach and there is no strength to give birth.

It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and rebuke against the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.

So the chief of the cupbearers returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had pulled up stakes from Lachish.

and have given their gods into the fire (for they were not gods, only the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them).

For a remnant shall go out of Jerusalem, and the escaped ones out of Mount Zion; the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this.

For I will defend over this city to save it, for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.

In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Command your house, for you are dying, and shall not live.

I said in the cessation of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am called to account for the rest of my years.

Like a swift or a crane, so I chatter. I moan as the dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights, O Jehovah; it presses me down; be surety for me!

What shall I say? For He speaks to me, and He has acted. I shall go softly all my years over the bitterness of my soul.

O Lord, on them they live, and for all in them is the life of my spirit. And You heal me, and make me live.

Behold, for peace was bitter to me, most bitter; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction; You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

For Sheol cannot thank You; death cannot praise You; the ones going down to the Pit cannot hope for Your truth.

For Jehovah will save me; and we will play my songs on stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of Jehovah.

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and rub it on the ulcer, and he will live.

At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he was ill, and was made strong.

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The Word of Jehovah that you have said is good. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.

The voice of him who cries in the wilderness: Prepare the way of Jehovah; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.