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For this is what the Lord said to me: As a lion or young lion growls over its prey when a band of shepherds is called out against it, and is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their noise, so the Lord of Hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.

Like hovering birds, so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem— by protecting it, He will rescue it, by sparing it, He will deliver it.

Who among all the gods of these lands ever delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem."

So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,

The king had heard this about Tirhakah king of Cush: "He has set out to fight against you." So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord —You alone.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

I am going to make the sun's shadow that goes down on Ahaz's stairway go back by 10 steps." So the sun's shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover."

The craftsman encourages the metalworker; the one who flattens with the hammer supports the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good." He fastens it with nails so that it will not fall over.

so that all may see and know, consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.

"Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell us the past events, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome, or tell us the future.

Who told about this from the beginning, so that we might know, and from times past, so that we might say: He is right? No one announced it, no one told it, no one heard your words.

"Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind, so that you may see.

So He poured out on Jacob His furious anger and the power of war. It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it; it burned him, but he paid no attention.

All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled. Who among them can declare this, and tell us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true."

"You are My witnesses"— this is the Lord 's declaration— "and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. No god was formed before Me, and there will be none after Me.

I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed— and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses"— this is the Lord 's declaration— "and I am God.

Take Me to court; let us argue our case together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.