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The Lord will fight as he did at Mount Perazim and in the valley of Gibeon, in order to do what he intends to do—strange as his actions may seem. He will complete his work, his mysterious work.

If you wander off the road to the right or the left, you will hear his voice behind you saying, "Here is the road. Follow it."

The moon will be as bright as the sun, and the sun will be seven times brighter than usual, like the light of seven days in one. This will all happen when the Lord bandages and heals the wounds he has given his people.

The Lord 's power and glory can be seen in the distance. Fire and smoke show his anger. He speaks, and his words burn like fire.

The Lord will let everyone hear his majestic voice and feel the force of his anger. There will be flames, cloudbursts, hailstones, and torrents of rain.

The Assyrians will be terrified when they hear the Lord 's voice and feel the force of his punishment.

As the Lord strikes them again and again, his people will keep time with the music of drums and harps. God himself will fight against the Assyrians.

He knows what he is doing! He sends disaster. He carries out his threats to punish evil people and those who protect them.

But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops.

and give stability to the nation. He always protects his people and gives them wisdom and knowledge. Their greatest treasure is their reverence for the Lord .

The Lord will show us his glory. We will live beside broad rivers and streams, but hostile ships will not sail on them.

The Lord has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction.

His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The Lord will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the Lord 's splendor, see his greatness and power.

Then he ordered his chief official to go from Lachish to Jerusalem with a large military force to demand that King Hezekiah surrender. The official occupied the road where the cloth makers work, by the ditch that brings water from the upper pool.

As soon as King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes in grief, put on sackcloth, and went to the Temple of the Lord .

The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the Lord your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."

The Lord will cause the emperor to hear a rumor that will make him go back to his own country, and the Lord will have him killed there."

One day when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed: