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Now the Egyptians are human and not God, And their horses are flesh and not spirit; So the LORD will stretch out His hand, And any helper will stumble, And one who is helped will fall. And all of them will come to an end together.

For this is what the LORD says to me: "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey, Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise, So will the LORD of armies come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

Like flying birds so the LORD of armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and save it; He will pass over and rescue it.

And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not wielded by a man, And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword, And his young men will become forced laborers.

One who walks righteously and speaks with integrity, One who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; One who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking at evil;

So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; So their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.

"Behold, you have relied on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Judean so that the people who are on the wall hear you."

But they were silent and did not answer him so much as a word; for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

"Behold, I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear news and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

'Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved?

and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

"But now LORD, our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, LORD, are God."

So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh.

"Behold, I will make the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps." So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

"I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me.

"Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

"The LORD is certain to save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD."