Isaiah 37:15

THE MESSAGE

Then Hezekiah prayed to God : " God -of-the-Angel-Armies, enthroned over the cherubim-angels, you are God, the only God there is, God of all kingdoms on earth. You made heaven and earth. Listen, O God , and hear. Look, O God , and see. Mark all these words of Sennacherib that he sent to mock the living God. It's quite true, O God , that the kings of Assyria have devastated all the nations and their lands. They've thrown their gods into the trash and burned them—no great achievement since they were no-gods anyway, gods made in workshops, carved from wood and chiseled from rock. An end to the no-gods! But now step in, O God , our God. Save us from him. Let all the kingdoms of earth know that you and you alone are God ."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:

Hebrew Names Version
Hizkiyahu prayed to the LORD, saying,

King James Version
And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord , saying,

English Standard Version
And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,

New Century Version
and prayed to the Lord :

Amplified Bible
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD saying,

World English Bible
Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Hezekiah prayed vnto the Lorde, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

Contemporary English Version
Then he prayed:

Complete Jewish Bible
This is the prayer that Hizkiyahu prayed to Adonai :

Darby Translation
And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
He prayed to the Lord :

George Lamsa Translation
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, saying,

Good News Translation
and prayed,

Lexham English Bible
And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Literal Translation
And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Ezechias prayed before the LORDE on this maner:

American Standard Version
And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And Hezekiah prayed vnto the Lord, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hezekia prayed vnto the Lorde [on this maner.]

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,

English Revised Version
And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and preiede to the Lord,

Update Bible Version
And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,

New English Translation
Hezekiah prayed before the Lord :

New King James Version
Then Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying:

New Living Translation
And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the Lord :

New Life Bible
And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord,

New Revised Standard
And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord , saying:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Hezekiah prayed unto Yahweh saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ezechias prayed to the Lord, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And Hezeki'ah prayed to the LORD:

Young's Literal Translation
And Hezekiah prayeth unto Jehovah, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hezekiah prayed to the LORD saying,

Contextual Overview

⁸ The Rabshekah left and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. (He had gotten word that the king had left Lachish.) ⁹Just then the Assyrian king received an intelligence report on King Tirhakah of Ethiopia: "He is on his way to make war on you." On hearing that, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with instructions to deliver this message: "Don't let your God , on whom you so naively lean, deceive you, promising that Jerusalem won't fall to the king of Assyria. Use your head! Look around at what the kings of Assyria have done all over the world—one country after another devastated! And do you think you're going to get off? Have any of the gods of any of these countries ever stepped in and saved them, even one of these nations my predecessors destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who lived in Telassar? Look around. Do you see anything left of the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, the king of Ivvah?" ¹⁴ Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of the messengers and read it. Then he went into the sanctuary of God and spread the letter out before God . ¹⁵Then Hezekiah prayed to God : " God -of-the-Angel-Armies, enthroned over the cherubim-angels, you are God, the only God there is, God of all kingdoms on earth. You made heaven and earth. Listen, O God , and hear. Look, O God , and see. Mark all these words of Sennacherib that he sent to mock the living God. It's quite true, O God , that the kings of Assyria have devastated all the nations and their lands. They've thrown their gods into the trash and burned them—no great achievement since they were no-gods anyway, gods made in workshops, carved from wood and chiseled from rock. An end to the no-gods! But now step in, O God , our God. Save us from him. Let all the kingdoms of earth know that you and you alone are God ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 7:8, 1 Samuel 7:9, 2 Samuel 7:18-29, 2 Kings 19:15-19, 2 Chronicles 14:11, 2 Chronicles 20:6-12, Daniel 9:3, Daniel 9:4, Philippians 4:6, Philippians 4:7, James 5:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:38 - prayer 2 Kings 2:12 - My father Psalms 116:4 - called Jeremiah 26:19 - did he

Cross-References

Genesis 21:14
Abraham got up early the next morning, got some food together and a canteen of water for Hagar, put them on her back and sent her away with the child. She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba. When the water was gone, she left the child under a shrub and went off, fifty yards or so. She said, "I can't watch my son die." As she sat, she broke into sobs.

Judges 4:22
Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera. Jael went out to greet him. She said, "Come, I'll show you the man you're looking for." He went with her and there he was—Sisera, stretched out, dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

2 Kings 6:19
Then Elisha called out to them, "Not that way! Not this city! Follow me and I'll lead you to the man you're looking for." And he led them into Samaria.

John 4:27
Just then his disciples came back. They were shocked. They couldn't believe he was talking with that kind of a woman. No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it.

John 18:7
Jesus asked again, "Who are you after?" They answered, "Jesus the Nazarene."

John 20:15
Jesus spoke to her, "Woman, why do you weep? Who are you looking for?" She, thinking that he was the gardener, said, "Mister, if you took him, tell me where you put him so I can care for him."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying. He did not return railing for railing, but committed himself and his cause to him that judgeth righteously; he did not write an answer to the letter himself, but lays it before the Lord, and prays him to answer it, who was most principally reflected on in it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:15. Unto the Lord - "Before JEHOVAH"] That is, in the sanctuary. For אל el, the Syriac, Chaldee, and the other copy, 2 Kings 19:15, read לפני liphney, "before the face."