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Bible Reading for July 19

Isaiah 37
[1] And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
LORD.
[2] And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the
prophet the son of Amoz.
[3] And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. [4] It may be the LORD thy
God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master
hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that
is left. [5] So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. [6] And
Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the
LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the
servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. [7] Behold, I will send
a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land;
and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
[8] So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. [9] And he
heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make
war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying,
[10] Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
given into the hand of the king of Assyria. [11] Behold, thou hast heard
what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them
utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? [12] Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
[13] Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of
the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? [14] And Hezekiah received the
letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up
unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
[15] And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, [16] O LORD of hosts, God
of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
[17] Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see:
and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the
living God.
[18] Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries,
[19] 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 have destroyed them.
[20] Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only. [21]
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria:
[22] This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The
virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. [23] Whom
hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of
Israel.
[24] By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border,
and the forest of his Carmel.
[25] I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I
dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. [26] Hast thou not heard
long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it?
now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced
cities into ruinous heaps. [27] Therefore their inhabitants were of small
power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the
field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn
blasted before it be grown up. [28] But I know thy abode, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
[29] Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine
ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. [30] And this
shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of
itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the
third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
[31] And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward: [32] For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the
LORD of hosts shall do this. [33] Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning
the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow
there nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. [34] By
the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into
this city, saith the LORD. [35] For I will defend this city to save it for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
[36] Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. [37] So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh.
[38] And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and
they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in
his stead.

Isaiah 38
[1] In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set
thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. [2] Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, [3] And said,
Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in
truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
[4] Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, [5] Go, and say to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard
thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen
years.
[6] And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city. [7] And this shall be a sign unto
thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
[8] Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten
degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. [9] The writing of Hezekiah
king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
[10] I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. [11] I said, I shall not
see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man
no more with the inhabitants of the world. [12] Mine age is departed, and
is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my
life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt
thou make an end of me. [13] I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so
will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of
me. [14] Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake
for me.
[15] What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. [16] O
Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. [17] Behold, for
peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it
from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
[18] For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. [19] The living, the
living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children
shall make known thy truth. [20] The LORD was ready to save me: therefore
we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life
in the house of the LORD. [21] For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of
figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. [22]
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of
the LORD?

Isaiah 39
[1] At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been
sick, and was recovered.
[2] And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his
precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious
ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his
treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah shewed them not.
[3] Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah
said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. [4] Then
said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All
that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shewed them. [5] Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the
word of the LORD of hosts: [6] Behold, the days come, that all that is in
thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this
day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
[7] And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
of Babylon.
[8] Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou
hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my
days.

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