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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman&#8217;s Field. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The field commander said to them, &#8220;Tell Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.18.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You say you have the counsel and the might for war&#8212;but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But if you say to me, &#8220;We are depending on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God&#8221;&#8212;isn&#8217;t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8220;You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses&#8212;if you can put riders on them! </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master&#8217;s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, &#8220;Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But the commander replied, &#8220;Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall&#8212;who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, &#8220;Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.18.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">until I come and take you to a land like your own&#8212;a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.18.32"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver us.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.18.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.18.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deliver Jerusalem from my hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.18.35"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch32" data-usfm="2CH.32.9+2CH.32.10+2CH.32.11+2CH.32.12+2CH.32.13+2CH.32.14+2CH.32.15+2CH.32.16+2CH.32.17+2CH.32.18+2CH.32.19">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When Hezekiah says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria,&#8217; he is misleading you, to let you die of hunger and thirst. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god&#8217;s high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8216;You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who of all the gods of these nations that my predecessors destroyed has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Sennacherib&#8217;s officers spoke further against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God and against his servant Hezekiah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The king also wrote letters ridiculing the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: &#8220;Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then they called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to capture the city. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the other peoples of the world&#8212;the work of human hands.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The field commander said to them, &#8220;Tell Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You say you have counsel and might for war&#8212;but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But if you say to me, &#8220;We are depending on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God&#8221;&#8212;isn&#8217;t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8220;You must worship before this altar&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses&#8212;if you can put riders on them! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master&#8217;s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, &#8220;Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the commander replied, &#8220;Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall&#8212;who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, &#8220;Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.36.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.36.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">until I come and take you to a land like your own&#8212;a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.36.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver us.&#8217; Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.36.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deliver Jerusalem from my hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to David&#8217;s City</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">the city where David settled!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">Add year to year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">and let your cycle of festivals go on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet I will besiege Ariel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will mourn and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will be to me like an altar hearth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">altar hearth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">Ariel</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will encamp against you on all sides;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">I will encircle you with towers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">and set up my siege works against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Brought low, you will speak from the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">your speech will mumble out of the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">out of the dust your speech will whisper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But your many enemies will become like fine dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">Suddenly, in an instant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with thunder and earthquake and great noise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">will be as it is with a dream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">with a vision in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as when a hungry person dreams of eating,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens hungry still;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens faint and thirsty still.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">So will it be with the hordes of all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">that fight against Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Be stunned and amazed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">blind yourselves and be sightless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">be drunk, but not from wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">stagger, but not from beer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought over you a deep sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">he has covered your heads (the seers).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I can&#8217;t; it is sealed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to read.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">&#8220;These people come near to me with their mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">and honor me with their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">Their worship of me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">is based on merely human rules they have been taught.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore once more I will astound these people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">with wonder upon wonder;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the wisdom of the wise will perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go to great depths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">to hide their plans from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">who do their work in darkness and think,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Who sees us? Who will know?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You turn things upside down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You did not make me&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Can the pot say to the potter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You know nothing&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">and the fertile field seem like a forest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">and out of gloom and darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">the eyes of the blind will see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Once more the humble will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The ruthless will vanish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">the mockers will disappear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">who ensnare the defender in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">&#8220;No longer will Jacob be ashamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">no longer will their faces grow pale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they see among them their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">the work of my hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will keep my name holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="content">those who complain will accept instruction.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">he does not take back his words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">He will rise up against that wicked nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">against those who help evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">their horses are flesh and not spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stretches out his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who help will stumble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who are helped will fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">all will perish together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">&#8220;As a lion growls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">a great lion over its prey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">and though a whole band of shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">is called together against it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">it is not frightened by their shouts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">or disturbed by their clamor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like birds hovering overhead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will shield it and deliver it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will &#8216;pass over&#8217; it and will rescue it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria will fall by no human sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">They will flee before the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">and their young men will be put to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their stronghold will fall because of terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose fire is in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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