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And a road will be there. It will be called the Holy Way. Those who are unclean will not travel on it. But it will be for those who walk in that way. Fools will not walk on it.

No lion will be there. No angry and hungry animal will go up on it. They will not be found there. But those whose sin has been paid for will walk there.

Those whom the Lord has paid for and set free will return. They will come to Zion with singing. Joy that lasts forever will crown their heads. They will be glad and full of joy. Sorrow and sad voices will be gone.

Rabshakeh said to them, "Tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Syria, says, "What is the reason for this hope you have?

Do you think that empty words are plans and strength for war? In whom do you trust, that you have turned against me?

How then can you turn away from one captain of the least of my king's servants, and trust in Egypt for war-wagons and horsemen?

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it. Do not speak with us in the language of Judah so the people who are on the wall will hear."

The king says, ‘Do not let Hezekiah lie to you. For he will not be able to bring you out of your trouble.

And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "For sure the Lord will bring us out of our trouble. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

‘Do not listen to Hezekiah.' For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Each one of you should eat of his own vine and fig tree, and drink the water of his own well,

But they were quiet and did not answer him. For the king had told them, "Do not answer him."

They said to him, "Hezekiah says, ‘This day is a day of trouble, pain, and shame. For children have come to birth, and there is no strength for them to be born.

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his leader the king of Assyria has sent to try to bring shame upon the living God. The Lord your God may speak sharp words against what He has heard. So say a prayer for those who are left of His people.'"

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, made of wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Have you not heard that I planned this long ago? From days of old I planned it. Now I have made it happen, that you should turn strong cities built for battles into waste lands.

"This will be the special thing for you to see: You will eat this year what grows of itself. In the second year you will eat what grows up from the same. Then in the third year you will plant and gather. You will plant grape-fields and eat their fruit.

For My people who are left will go out from Jerusalem and from Mount Zion. This will be done by the work of the Lord of All."'"

‘For I will fight for this city to save it for My own good, and for the good of My servant David.'"

In those days Hezekiah became sick and was near death. Isaiah the man of God, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, "The Lord says, ‘Make those of your house ready, for you will die and not live.'"