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See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands. They have destroyed them all. So will you be kept from trouble?

Listen, O Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to speak against the living God.

"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.

"Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘The Lord, the God of your father David, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. See, I will add fifteen years to your life.

"This is the special thing for you to see from the Lord, that the Lord will do what He has said:

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

I said, "I will not see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living. I will not look upon man any more among the people of the world.

See, it was for my own well-being that I was bitter. But You have kept my soul from the grave that destroys. You have put all my sins behind Your back.

Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the special thing to see, that I will go up to the house of the Lord?"

‘See, the days are coming when everything in your house, and everything your fathers have stored up to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says the Lord.

Then the shining-greatness of the Lord will be seen. All flesh together will see it, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

See, the Lord God will come with power, and His arm will rule for Him. See, He is bringing the reward He will give to everyone for what he has done.

See, the nations are like a drop in a pail. Their weight is like a little piece of dust. See, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Lift up your eyes and see. Who has made these stars? It is the One Who leads them out by number. He calls them all by name. Because of the greatness of His strength, and because He is strong in power, not one of them is missing.

See, all those who are angry with you will be put to shame and troubled. Those who fight against you will be as nothing and will be lost.

See, I have made you a new, sharp, crushing tool with teeth. You will beat the mountains and crush them. You will make the hills like dry grass.

Then men will see and know and think about and understand that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has made it happen.

See, you are nothing. And your work is nothing. He who chooses you is hated and sinful.

"Before I had said to Zion, ‘See, here they are,' and to Jerusalem, ‘I will send someone to bring good news.'

But I see that there is no one, even no wise man among them, who can answer My questions.