Isaiah 39:1-8 Hezekiah Shows Those from Babylon All His Treasures

 

Hezekiah Shows Those from Babylon All His Treasures

Isaiah 39:1-8                                The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

At that time, Merodach Baladan, [Baladan's] son, [Babylon's] king, sent letters & a present to Hezekiah. For he had heard that [Hezekiah] was sick & [had] recovered.

And Hezekiah was glad [about] them & [showed] them the house of his precious [treasures:] the silver, gold, spices, precious ointment & all the house [with] his armor & all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his [kingdom,] that Hezekiah [hadn't shown] them.

Then, Isaiah, the prophet, came to king Hezekiah & said to him, What [did these] men [say?] [Where did] they [come] from? And Hezekiah said, They [have] come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.

Then [Isaiah asked,] What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, They have seen all that in [my] house & there is nothing among my treasures, that I haven't [shown] them.

Then, Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the Word of the Lord of Hosts. [Watch, the days come, that all that is in your house & [what the forefathers have stored] up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

And they shall take away your [future] sons that shall [come] from you, which you shall [father] & they shall become eunuchs in the palace of [Babylon's]  king. Then, Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The Word of the Lord that you have spoken is good. He [additionally said,] There shall be peace & truth [during] my days.

Isaiah 38:1-22 Isaiah Comes to Hezekiah, Who is Deathly Sick

 

Isaiah Comes to Hezekiah, Who is Deathly Sick

Isaiah 38:1-22                               The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

In those days, Hezekiah was sick & [near] death. And Isaiah, the prophet, [Amoz'] son, came to [Hezekiah] & said to him, the Lord says [this, Put] your house in order: for you shall not live & shall die.

Then, Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall & prayed to the Lord. And said, O Lord, I [beg] You, remember how I have walked before You in truth & with a [blameless] heart & have done [what] is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept [severely.]

Then, the Word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, Go & say to Hezekiah, The Lord, the God of David, your [forefather,] says [this,] I have heard your prayer & I have seen your tears. [Watch,] I will add 15 years to your [life.] And I will deliver you & this city out of the hand of [Assyria's] king & I will defend this city.

And this shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He has spoken. [Look,] I will bring the shadow of the sun dial of Ahaz down 10 degrees backward again. So, the sun returned & [went back] 10 degrees, by which [the sun dial measured the] degrees it [had] gone down.

The writing of Hezekiah, [Judah's] king, when he had been sick & [had] recovered [from] his sickness. I said [when] my days [were being cut] off, I shall go to the gates of the grave. I'm deprived of the [rest] of my years.

I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living. I shall no [longer see] man with the inhabitants of the world. [My] age is [soon] departed & is removed from me [like] a shepherd's tent [gets moved.]

My life [has been] been cut off like [with] a [weaver's] [scissors.] He will cut me off, with sickness, [wasting away] from day, even to night & You will make an end of me. I [considered until] morning, that, [like] a lion [breaks the bones of his prey,] so will He break all my bones: from day even to night.

You will make an end of me. I [chattered] like a crane or a swallow & I [mourned like] a dove. [My] eyes fail with looking upward. O Lord, I'm oppressed, [step in] for me. What shall I say? He has spoken to me & has done it Himself.

I shall [walk carefully] all my years, in the bitterness of my soul. O Lord, men live by these things. [Deuteronomy 8:2-3 And you shall remember all the [ways that] the Lord your God led you these 40 years in the wilderness, to humble you & to [test] you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or [not.]

And He humbled you & [allowed] you to hunger & fed you with manna, which you [didn't know.] Neither did your [forefathers know [it; so] that He might make you know that man doesn't live by bread [alone,] but man [lives] by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.]

The spirit of my life is in all these things, so You will recover me & make me live. [See, in peacetime,] I had great bitterness: but You have, [out of] love [for] my [life,] delivered it from the corruption of the pit. For You have [turned] Your back on all my sins.

For the grave can't praise You & death can't celebrate You. [Those who] go down into the pit can't hope for Your Truth. [John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, The Truth & the Life. No man comes to the Father, [except] by Me.]

The living, the Living [God,] shall praise you, [like] I do this day. The father shall make known Your truth to the children. The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs [along with] the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the [Lord's] house.

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs & lay it [as a plaster] upon the boil & he shall recover. Also, Hezekiah had [previously asked,] What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

Isaiah 37:1-38 Hezekiah Prays to the Lord God with the Letter From Assyria's King

 

Hezekiah Prays to the Lord God with the Letter From Assyria's King

Isaiah 37:1-38                               The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

And it [happened,] when king Hezekiah heard it, that he [tore] his clothes & covered himself with sackcloth & went into the [Lord's] house. And [Hezekiah] sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna, the scribe & the [priests'] elders, covered with sackcloth to Isaiah, the prophet, [who was] [Amoz'] son.

And they said to [Isaiah,] Hezekiah [said this,] This day is a day of: trouble, [reprimand] & of blasphemy: for the children [people have] [approached] the birth & there is [no] strength to [deliver.]

It may be the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom [Assyria's] king, his master, has sent to [ridicule] the Living God & will [reprimand] the words [that] the Lord your God has heard. [For this reason,] lift up your prayer for [those remaining, who] are left.

So, king [Hezekiah's] servants came to Isaiah.] And Isaiah said to them, You shall say [this] to your master, The Lord says [this, Don't] be afraid of the words that you have heard, [in which] the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

[Watch,] I will send a [severe reprimand] upon him & he shall hear a rumor & return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword, in his own land. So, Rabshakeh returned & found [Assyria's] king [battling] against Libnah: for he had heard that he [had left] from Lachish.

And [Rabshakeh] heard say [about] Tirhakah, [Ethiopia's] king, He [has] come [out] to make war with you. And when [Rabshakeh] heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, You shall [say this] to Hezekiah, [Judah's] king, saying, [Don't] let your God, in Whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of [Assyria's] king.

[Look,] you have heard what the king of Assyria has done to all the lands by [totally] destroying them & shall you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations  [that] my [forefathers] have destroyed, delivered them, [like:] Gozan, Haran, Rezeph & the children [people] of Eden, [that] were in Telassar? Where [are] the [kings] of: Hamath, Arphad, Sepharvaim, Hena & Ivah?

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers & read it. And Hezekaih went up [into] the [Lord's] house & spread [the letter] before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, O Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, [Who] dwells between the cherubims, You are the God, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth.

You have made heaven & earth. [Lean] Your ear, O Lord, & hear. Open Your eyes, O Lord, & see & hear all the words of Sennacherib, [who] has sent to [disgrace] the Living God. [Truthfully,] Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid [to] waste all the nations & their countries & have [thrown] their gods into the fire: for they weren't gods, but the work of men's hands, [of:] wood & stone.

Therefore, they have destroyed them. O Lord, our God, therefore, now save us from his hand, [so] that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord, even You only.

Then, Isaiah, [Amoz'] son, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord God of Israel, [says this, Since] you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib, [Assyria's] king, This is the Word [that] the Lord has spoken [about] him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, [a.k.a. Jerusalem,] has despised you & [looks down on you.]

The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. Whom have you [disgraced] & blasphemed? And against Whom have you [raised] your voice & lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

[Isaiah 2:11-12 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled & the [arrogance] of men shall be bowed down & the Lord alone shall be exalted [on] that day. For the day of the Lord of Hosts, shall be upon everyone, [who] is lifted up & he shall be brought low.]

You have [disgraced] the Lord, by your servants & have said, By the multitude of my chariots, I [have] come up to the height of the mountains, to the side of Lebanon & I will cut down [its] tall cedar trees & [its best] fir trees. And I will enter into the height of [God's] border & the forest of His Carmel. I have [dug] with the soles of my feet & drunk water & I have dried up all the rivers of the places [surrounded by troops.]

Haven't you, [Sennacherib,] heard? Long ago, how I have done it & that I have formed it [in] ancient times? [Isaiah 22:11 You also made a [aqueduct] between the 2 walls for the water of the old pool: but you haven't looked to [its] Maker, neither [did you show] respect to Him, [Who] fashioned it long ago.]

Now, I have [had it happen,] [in order] that you should be to [destroy fortified] cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore, their [residents had little] power & they were [distressed & confused.]

They were [like] the grass of the field & the green herb & [like] the grass on the [rooftops] & [like] corn [scorched] before it [has] grown up. But I know [where you live] & your going out & coming in & your rage against Me. Because your rage against Me & your [commotion has] come up into [My] ears.

Therefore, I will put My hook in your nose & My bridle in your lips & I will turn you back, by the [road of] which you came. And this shall be a sign to you, This year, you shall eat [what] grows of itself. The 2nd year, [you shall eat,] [what sprouts up] of the same [plants.]

And in the 3rd year, you [shall] sow [seeds] & [harvest] & plant vineyards & eat of [its] fruit. And the [remaining, who] have escaped [from] the house of Judah, shall again take root downward & [produce] fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant & [those who] escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this.

[Isaiah 9:6-7 *For unto you a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. And the government shall be upon His shoulder & His Name shall be called: Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

There shall be no end of the increase of His government & peace, upon the throne of David & upon His kingdom, to [command] it & to establish it with judgment & with justice from [now on,] even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will [accomplish] this.]

Therefore, the Lord said [this about Assyria's] king, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor [throw up an embankment] against it. He shall return by the same [road] that he came & shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

For I will defend this city to save  it for [My] Own sake & for My servant, David's] sake. Then, the Angel of the Lord went [out] & [killed] 185,000 of the [Assyrian's] camp. And when [the Israelites] arose early in the morning, they [saw,] they were all dead corpses.

So, Sennacherib, [Assyria's] king departed & went & returned & [lived in] Nineveh. And it [happened,] as [Sennacherib] was worshiping  in the house of Nisroch, his god, that his sons, Adrammelech & Sharezer, [struck him down] with the sword & they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar Haddon, his son [ruled] in his [place.]

Isaiah 36:1-22 Rabshakeh is Sent with His Army to Jerusalem

 

Rabshakeh is Sent with His Army to Jerusalem

Isaiah 36:1-22                                The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

Now, it [happened on] the 14th year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, [Assyria's] king, came up against all [Judah's fortified] cities & [captured] them. And [Assyria's] king sent Rabshakeh with a [large] army, from Lachish to king Hezekiah, [in] Jerusalem.

And he stood by the conduit, [a.k.a. aqueduct,] of the Upper Pool [by] the Highway of the [Launderer's] Field. Then, Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, [who] was over the house & Shebna, the scribe & Joah, Asaph's son, [who was] the recorder, came out to him.

And Rabshakeh said to them, You say now to Hezekiah, The great king, the king of Assryia says [this,] What is [it that you trust in that] you [have] confidence? I say [that] you say, I have counsel & strength for war, (but they are [just] vain words.) Now on Whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

[Look,] you trust in the staff, [a.k.a. walking stick,] of this broken reed [from] Egypt; [upon which] if a man [leans;] it will [break &] go into his hand & pierce it. So is Pharaoh, [Egypt's] king, to all [who] trust in him.

But if you say to me, We trust in the Lord our God, isn't it He, Whose high places & Whose altars Hezekiah has taken away & said to Judah & to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

[2 Kings 18:4 [Hezekiah] removed the high places & [broke] the images & cut down the groves & [broke] in pieces the [brass snake] that Moses had made: for those days [that] the children [people] of Israel [burnt] incense to it & he called it Nehushtan.]

Therefore, I pray [that] you now give pledges, [a.k.a. collateral,] to my master, [Assyria's] king & I will give you 2,000 horses, if on your part, you [are] able to [put] riders upon them.

Then, how will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants & put your trust [in] Egypt for chariots & horsemen? And [haven't] I now, without the Lord, come up against this land to destroy it?

Then, Eliakim, Shebna & Joah said to Rabshakeh, I pray [that] you speak to your servants in the Syrian, [a.k.a. Aramaic] language; for we understand it. And [don't] speak to us in the Jews' language, [within earshot] of the people, [who] are on the wall.

But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to speak these words [just] to your master & to you? Hasn't he sent me to the men, [who] sit upon the wall, [so] that they may eat their own [feces] & drink their own [urine] with you?

Then, Rabshakeh stood & cried [out] with a loud voice in the Jew's language & said, Hear you the words of the great king, king of Assyria. The king says [this,] [Don't] let Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us.

This city shall not be delivered into the hand of [Assyria's] king. [Don't pay attention] to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says [this,] Make an agreement with me [with] a present & come out to me.

And everyone of you eat of his [own] vine & of his fig tree & drink of the waters of his own cistern, [a.k.a. well;] until I come & take you away to a land like your own land. A land of corn & wine. A land of bread & vineyards.

Beware lest Hezekiah [convinces] you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of [Assyria's] king? Where are the gods of Hamath [or] Arphad, [a.k.a. Arpad?] Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Who are [those] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, [so] that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? But they held their peace & [didn't answer] him a word: for the king's [command] was, [Don't] answer him.

Then, Eliakim, [Hilkiah's] son, [who] was over the household, Shebna, the scribe & Joah, [Asaph's] son, [who was] the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes [torn] & told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 35:1-10 The Lord God Will Come & Save You

 

The Lord God Will Come & Save You

Isaiah 35:1-10                                The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

The wilderness & the [desolate, empty] place shall be glad for them. And the desert shall rejoice & blossom [like] the rose. It shall [bloom] abundantly & even rejoice with joy & singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it & the [excellence] of Carmel & Sharon, shall see the glory of the Lord & the [excellence] of our God.

Strengthen [your] weak hands & [firm up] the feeble knees. Say to [those with] fearful hearts, Be strong & [don't] fear. [Watch,] your God will come with vengeance, even God with a [repayment.] He will come & save you. [Romans 10:13 For [whoever] shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.]

*Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened & the ears of the deaf shall be [unplugged.] [Matthew 11:3-5 And said to Him, Are You He, [Who] shall come, or do we look for another?

Jesus answered & said to them, Go & [declare to] John again those things [that] you hear & see. *The blind receive their sight & the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up & the poor have the gospel preached to them.]

*Then, shall the lame man leap like a [deer] & the tongue of the [mute] shall sing. For in the wilderness, waters shall break out & streams in the desert. And the parched, [a.k.a. dry] ground shall become a pool & [in] the thirsty land, springs of water.

In the habitation of [jackals], shall be grass with reeds & [papyrus,] where each lay. [Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in high places & fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water & the dry land, springs of water.]

And a highway shall be there & a [road] shall be called The Way of Holiness & the unclean shall not pass over it. But it shall be for [these:] the [wandering] men, though fools shall not [go astray there.]

[Revelation 21:27 And there in no [ways] shall anything that defiles enter into it, neither [whatever] [causes] abomination or makes a lie, but [those who] are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.]

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous [animal] shall go up [there] & it shall not be found there.] But the redeemed shall walk there & the ransomed of the Lord shall return & come to Zion with songs & everlasting joy, upon their heads. They shall obtain joy & gladness, [but] sorrow & sighing shall flee away.

[Revelation 21:3-4 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, [Look,] the tabernacle of God is with men. And He will dwell with them & they shall be His people. And God, Himself, shall be with them & be their God.

*And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes & there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying. Neither shall there be anymore pain: for the [previous] things are passed away.]

Isaiah 34:1-17 The Lord's Indignation is Upon All Nations & All Their Armies

 

The Lord's Indignation is Upon All Nations & All Their Armies

Isaiah 34:1-17                                The Book of Isaiah [in Smaller Chunks]

Come [close,] you nations to hear & [pay attention,] you people. Let the earth hear & all that's [in it] & the world & all things that come [from] it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations & His fury upon all their armies. He has [totally] destroyed them & He has delivered them to the slaughter.

Also, their slain shall be [thrown] out & their stink shall come up [from] their [corpse'] & the mountains shall be melted with their [bloodshed.] [Amos 4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence, [similar to Egypt's.] I have slain your young men with the sword & have taken away your horses. And I have made your [camp's] stink to come up [into] your nostrils. [Still,] you haven't returned to Me, says the Lord.]

And all the [stars] of heaven shall be dissolved & the heavens shall be rolled together [like] a scroll. And all their [stars] shall fall down, [like] the leaf falls off from the vine & like the fig [falls] from the fig tree.

[Revelation 6:12-14 And I [saw] when He had opened the 6th seal & [indeed,] there was a [large] earthquake & the sun became black [like] sackcloth of [goat's] hair & the moon became like blood.

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even [like] a fig tree [drops it's bad] figs, when a mighty wind [shakes it.] And the heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together & every mountain & island were moved out of their places.]

For, [look,] My sword shall come down upon Idumea, [a.k.a. Edom,] & upon the people of My curse, [for justice,] & it shall be [cleansed] in heaven. [Psalm 97:5-7 The hills melted like wax [in] the presence of the Lord.

[In] the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. The heavens declare His Righteousness & all the people see His glory. All [those who] served [carved] images & boast themselves of idols, [are confused.] Worship Him, all you gods.]

The sword of the Lord is filled with [bloodshed.] It is made [overflowing] with the [fat] & blood of lambs & goats & with the fat of [rams'] kidneys; for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, [a.k.a. Bostra] & a great slaughter in the land of Idumea, [a.k.a. Edom.]

And the [wild ox] shall come down with them & bulls with the bullocks, [a.k.a. young bulls.] And their land shall be soaked with blood & their [dirt] is made [greasy] with [fat.]

For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance & the year of [repayment] for the [disagreement] of Zion. [Isaiah 61:2 *To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord & the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all [who] mourn.]

And [its] streams shall be turned to pitch & [its dirt] into brimstone. And [its] land shall become burning pitch. It shall not be [put out,] night nor day. [Its] smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation, it shall lie [wastelands] & none shall pass through it forever & ever.

[Revelation 14:9-11 And the 3rd Angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man [worships] the beast & his image & [receives] his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out, without mixture into the cup of His indignation.

And he shall be tormented with fire & brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels & in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment, [goes] up forever & ever. And [those who] worship the beast & his image & [whoever] receives the mark of his name, have no rest day nor night.]

But the cormorant, [a.k.a. pelican] & the [porcupine] shall possess it. The owl & also the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out the line of confusion & the stones of emptiness upon it. [Zephaniah 2:14-15 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her & all [animals] of the nations: both the cormorant & the [porcupine] shall lodge in their upper [canopies] of it.

Their voice shall sing in the windows & desolation shall be in the thresholds: for He shall uncover the cedar work. This is that rejoicing city that [lived] carelessly & said in her heart, I am & there is none [besides] me. How [has] she become a desolation, a place for [animals] to lie down in! Everyone, [who] passes by her shall his & [shake] his hand [at it.]

They shall call their nobles there to the kingdom, but none shall be there. And all her princes shall [no longer] be. And thorns shall come up in her palaces & [stinging] nettles & [sticker bushes] in the fortresses [there.] And it shall be a [dwelling for jackals] & a [courtyard] for owls.

The wild [animals] of the desert & wild [animals] of the [islands] & the satyr, [a.k.a. wild goat,] shall cry [out] to [its companions.] The screech owl shall also find for herself a place of rest there. The great owls shall make her nest there & lay & hatch [eggs & they] gather under her shadow there. The vultures there shall also be gathered, everyone with her mate.

Seek you out the Book of the Lord & read [it.] [Not] one of these shall fail & none shall [lack its] mate. For My mouth has commanded it & [by] His Spirit, It has gathered them. [Psalm 147:9 He gives to the [animals] his food & to the young ravens which cry [out.]

And He has cast the lot for them & His hand has divided [the land] to them, by [a measuring] line. They shall possess it forever, from generation to generation, they shall dwell [there.]