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But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

But when I look, there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.

Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord ?

He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.

But now thus says the Lord , he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

"Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

"But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.

But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing.