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who said to them, “Tell your master, ‘The Lord says this: Don’t be afraid because of the words you have heard, with which the king of Assyria’s attendants have blasphemed me.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria,

Because your raging against meand your arrogance have reached my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth;I will make you go backthe way you came.

Because of his righteousness, the Lord was pleasedto magnify his instruction and make it glorious.

Because you are precious in my sightand honored, and I love you,I will give people in exchange for youand nations instead of your life.

Wild animals—jackals and ostriches—will honor me,because I provide water in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert,to give drink to my chosen people.

“But, Jacob, you have not called on me,because, Israel, you have become weary of me.

Because I know that you are stubborn,and your neck is ironand your forehead bronze,

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is my arm too weak to redeem?Or do I have no power to rescue?Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

For you will not leave in a hurry,and you will not have to take flight;because the Lord is going before you,and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

so he will sprinkle many nations.Kings will shut their mouths because of him,for they will see what had not been told them,and they will understand what they had not heard.

But he was pierced because of our rebellion,crushed because of our iniquities;punishment for our peace was on him,and we are healed by his wounds.

He was taken away because of oppression and judgment;and who considered his fate?For he was cut off from the land of the living;he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,but he was with a rich man at his death,because he had done no violenceand had not spoken deceitfully.

Therefore I will give him the many as a portion,and he will receive the mighty as spoil,because he willingly submitted to death,and was counted among the rebels;yet he bore the sin of manyand interceded for the rebels.

Because of his sinful greed I was angry,so I struck him; I was angry and hid;but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.

Then you will see and be radiant,and your heart will tremble and rejoice,because the riches of the sea will become yoursand the wealth of the nations will come to you.

I will not keep silent because of Zion,

I will make known the Lord’s faithful loveand the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,because of all the Lord has done for us—even the many good thingshe has done for the house of Israel,which he did for them based on his compassionand the abundance of his faithful love.

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways?You harden our hearts so we do not fear you.Return, because of your servants,the tribes of your heritage.