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But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.

But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will go, and majestic vessels will not pass.

No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it,

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. On whom are you now relying, that you have rebelled against me?

But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"?

But the Rab-shakeh replied, "Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, "Do not answer him."

to tell him, "This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone-the work of human hands.

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Surely, for my welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "At least there will be peace and security in my lifetime."

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.

But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend-

You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I have kept silent from ages past; I have kept quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.