Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 And now, exchange pledges, I pray, with my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set for thyself riders upon them.

9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one governor among the least of my ’s servants, and puttest thy trust in - Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10 And now is it without the LORD that I am come up against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11 And Eliakim said, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, pray, unto thy servants in the Aramaean tongue, for we understand it: and speak not unto us in the Jewish tongue, in-the ears of the people which are on the wall.

12 And Rabshakeh said, Is it to thy lord, and to thee, that my lord hath sent me, to speak these words? Is it not to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and drink their own water with you?

[*](3. ‘recorder’: or, ‘remembrancer,’ and so ver. 22,)[*](5. Many propose to read ‘Thou ’ altering a small letter to agree with the parallel passage in 2 Kings.)[*](7. Or, ‘and for that thou sayest to me....’)[*](11 ‘understand’: lit. ‘hear‘: so in LXX.)

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13 And Rabshakeh Stood, and cried with a great voice in the Jewish tongue, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the ἦ king of AsSyria

14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you. ὁ .

15 And let not Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will safely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ’

16 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria., Make agreement with me, and come ’out to me; and eat ye everyone of his vine, and everyone of his ﬁg tree, and drink ye everyone the waters of his cistern :