WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.830 Nancy: Welcome to Immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.300 Day 200 and 54. 00:00:04.684 --> 00:00:06.034 come here and listen. 00:00:06.094 --> 00:00:11.314 O nations of the Earth Let the world and everything in it hear my words. 00:00:12.094 --> 00:00:14.764 For the Lord is enraged against the nations. 00:00:15.154 --> 00:00:17.374 His fury is against all their armies. 00:00:17.764 --> 00:00:21.214 He will completely destroy them, dooming them to slaughter. 00:00:21.934 --> 00:00:25.264 Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of routing 00:00:25.264 --> 00:00:26.854 bodies will fill the land. 00:00:27.484 --> 00:00:29.404 The mountains will flow with their blood. 00:00:30.124 --> 00:00:33.064 The heavens above will melt away and disappear. 00:00:33.124 --> 00:00:37.924 Like a rolled up scroll, the stars will fall from the sky, like 00:00:37.924 --> 00:00:42.154 withered leaves from a grapevine or shriveled figs from a fig tree. 00:00:43.204 --> 00:00:47.974 And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon edem, 00:00:48.424 --> 00:00:50.584 the nation I have marked for destruction. 00:00:50.974 --> 00:00:54.724 The sword of the Lord is drenched with blood and covered with fat. 00:00:55.114 --> 00:01:00.094 With the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice. 00:01:00.724 --> 00:01:04.774 Yes, the Lord will offer a sacrifice in the city of Basra. 00:01:05.674 --> 00:01:11.044 He will make a mighty slaughter in Edam, even men as strong as wild oxen 00:01:11.044 --> 00:01:16.474 will die the young men Alongside the veterans, the land will be soaked with 00:01:16.479 --> 00:01:18.814 blood and the soil enriched with fat. 00:01:19.924 --> 00:01:22.114 For it is the day of the Lord's revenge. 00:01:22.354 --> 00:01:26.134 The year when Edam will be paid back for all it did to Israel. 00:01:26.914 --> 00:01:31.084 The streams of Edam will be filled with burning pitch and the 00:01:31.084 --> 00:01:32.884 ground will be covered with fire. 00:01:33.754 --> 00:01:36.124 This judgment on Edam will never end. 00:01:36.634 --> 00:01:39.784 The smoke of its burning will rise forever. 00:01:40.774 --> 00:01:44.434 The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. 00:01:44.884 --> 00:01:46.594 No one will live there anymore. 00:01:47.254 --> 00:01:51.124 It will be haunted by the desert owl and the Screech Owl, the 00:01:51.124 --> 00:01:55.864 Great Owl and the raven, for God will measure that land carefully. 00:01:56.374 --> 00:01:59.224 He will measure it for chaos and destruction. 00:01:59.824 --> 00:02:05.134 It will be called the land of nothing and all its nobles will soon be gone. 00:02:05.854 --> 00:02:10.654 Thorns will overrun its palaces, nettles, and thistles will grow in its forts. 00:02:10.924 --> 00:02:14.884 The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for owls. 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.829 Desert animals will mingle there with hyenas. 00:02:19.309 --> 00:02:20.539 Their howls filling. 00:02:20.539 --> 00:02:25.849 The night wild goats will ble at one another among the ruins and night 00:02:25.849 --> 00:02:28.849 creatures will come there to rest there. 00:02:28.849 --> 00:02:31.609 The owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:36.199 She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings and the buzzard 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.749 will come each one with its mate. 00:02:40.099 --> 00:02:43.729 Search the book of the Lord and see what he will do. 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:49.489 Not one of these birds and animals will be missing and none will lack a mate. 00:02:49.579 --> 00:02:54.379 For the Lord has promised this, his spirit will make it all come true. 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.599 He has surveyed and divided the land and deeded it over to those creatures. 00:03:00.139 --> 00:03:04.069 They will possess it forever from generation to generation. 00:03:05.149 --> 00:03:08.299 Even the wilderness and desert will be glad in those days. 00:03:09.079 --> 00:03:12.739 The wasteland will rejoice and blossom with spring crocuses. 00:03:13.204 --> 00:03:17.524 Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy. 00:03:18.334 --> 00:03:22.714 The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon, as lovely as 00:03:22.714 --> 00:03:24.934 Mount Carmel or the plane of Sharon. 00:03:25.654 --> 00:03:31.534 There the Lord will display his glory, the splendor of our God With this news, 00:03:31.744 --> 00:03:36.754 strengthen those who have tired hands and encourage those who have weak knees. 00:03:37.219 --> 00:03:39.229 Say to those with fearful hearts. 00:03:39.349 --> 00:03:44.659 Be strong and do not fear for your God is coming to destroy your enemies. 00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:50.689 He is coming to save you and when he comes, he will open the eyes of the 00:03:50.689 --> 00:03:53.209 blind and unplug the ears of the deaf. 00:03:53.689 --> 00:03:58.369 The lame will leap like a deer and those who cannot speak will sing for joy. 00:03:59.029 --> 00:04:03.979 Springs will gush forth in the wilderness and streams will water the wasteland. 00:04:04.564 --> 00:04:08.284 The parched ground will become a pool and springs of water 00:04:08.284 --> 00:04:10.204 will satisfy the thirsty land. 00:04:11.104 --> 00:04:16.534 Marsh, grass, and reeds and rushes will flourish where desert jackals once lived 00:04:17.584 --> 00:04:19.354 and a great road will go through that. 00:04:19.354 --> 00:04:24.364 Once deserted land, it will be named the highway of holiness. 00:04:25.114 --> 00:04:27.484 Evil minded people will never travel on it. 00:04:27.784 --> 00:04:30.964 It will only be for those who walk in God's ways. 00:04:31.204 --> 00:04:32.914 Fools will never walk there. 00:04:33.709 --> 00:04:38.239 Lions will not lurk along its course, nor any other ferocious beasts. 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:40.579 There will be no other dangers. 00:04:41.029 --> 00:04:43.159 Only the redeemed will walk on it. 00:04:43.819 --> 00:04:46.729 Those who have been ransom by the Lord will return. 00:04:47.269 --> 00:04:49.879 They will enter Jerusalem singing crowned. 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.739 With everlasting joy, sorrow and mourning will disappear and they 00:04:54.739 --> 00:04:57.049 will be filled with joy and gladness 00:04:59.509 --> 00:05:02.659 in the 14th year of King Hezekiah's Reign. 00:05:03.334 --> 00:05:07.174 King Sakib of Assyria came to attack the fortified towns 00:05:07.174 --> 00:05:09.004 of Judah and conquered them. 00:05:10.054 --> 00:05:14.764 Then the King of Assyria sent his chief of staff from Lake ish with a huge army 00:05:14.764 --> 00:05:17.194 to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. 00:05:18.274 --> 00:05:22.234 The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into 00:05:22.234 --> 00:05:26.464 the upper pool near the road, leading to the field where cloth is washed. 00:05:27.424 --> 00:05:30.184 These are the officials who went out to meet with them. 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:37.339 Elia Kim, son of Hilah, the palace administrator, EBNA, the court secretary, 00:05:37.729 --> 00:05:40.669 and Joa son of Asaf, the royal historian. 00:05:41.809 --> 00:05:45.229 Then the Assyrian King's chief of staff told them to give 00:05:45.234 --> 00:05:46.879 this message to Hezekiah. 00:05:47.899 --> 00:05:50.899 This is what the great King of Assy says. 00:05:51.829 --> 00:05:54.589 What are you trusting in that makes you so confident? 00:05:55.039 --> 00:05:57.889 Do you think that mere words can substitute for 00:05:57.889 --> 00:05:59.659 military skill and strength? 00:06:00.034 --> 00:06:04.534 Who are you counting on that you have rebelled against me on Egypt? 00:06:04.804 --> 00:06:08.734 If you lean on Egypt, it will be like a read that splinters beneath 00:06:08.734 --> 00:06:10.774 your weight and pierces your hand. 00:06:11.314 --> 00:06:17.164 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is completely unreliable, but perhaps you will say to 00:06:17.164 --> 00:06:20.194 me, we are trusting in the Lord our God. 00:06:21.349 --> 00:06:24.559 Isn't he the one who was insulted by Hezekiah? 00:06:25.069 --> 00:06:29.869 Didn't Hezekiah tear down his shrines and altars and make everyone in 00:06:29.869 --> 00:06:34.369 Judah and Jerusalem worship only at the altar here in Jerusalem? 00:06:35.089 --> 00:06:36.139 I'll tell you what. 00:06:36.739 --> 00:06:39.709 Strike a bargain with my master, the King of Assyria. 00:06:40.129 --> 00:06:42.019 I will give you 2000 horses. 00:06:42.019 --> 00:06:46.699 If you can find that many men to ride on them with your tiny army. 00:06:46.909 --> 00:06:50.899 How can you think of challenging even the weakest contingent of my 00:06:50.899 --> 00:06:54.949 master's troops, even with the help of Egypt's chariots and charioteers? 00:06:56.269 --> 00:07:01.159 What's more, do you think we have invaded your land without the Lord's direction? 00:07:01.789 --> 00:07:05.629 The Lord himself told us, attack this land and destroy it. 00:07:06.784 --> 00:07:12.964 Then Elia Kim Shena and Joa said to the Assyrian chief of Staff, please speak to 00:07:12.964 --> 00:07:15.814 us in Aramaic for we understand it well. 00:07:16.174 --> 00:07:21.904 Don't speak in Hebrew for the people on the wall will hear, but SIB's chief of 00:07:21.904 --> 00:07:27.634 staff replied, do you think my master sent this message only to you and your master? 00:07:27.994 --> 00:07:30.094 He wants all the people to hear it. 00:07:30.394 --> 00:07:34.534 For when we put this city under siege, they will suffer along with you. 00:07:35.209 --> 00:07:38.899 They will be so hungry and thirsty that they will eat their own 00:07:38.899 --> 00:07:41.059 dung and drink their own urine. 00:07:42.019 --> 00:07:46.249 Then the chief of staff stood and shouted in Hebrew to the people on the wall. 00:07:46.939 --> 00:07:50.959 Listen to this message from the Great King of Assyria. 00:07:51.739 --> 00:07:53.389 This is what the king says. 00:07:54.274 --> 00:07:56.434 Don't let Hezekiah deceive you. 00:07:56.854 --> 00:07:59.074 He will never be able to rescue you. 00:07:59.584 --> 00:08:02.704 Don't let him fool you into trusting in the Lord by saying 00:08:02.914 --> 00:08:04.954 The Lord will surely rescue us. 00:08:05.134 --> 00:08:08.854 This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king. 00:08:09.694 --> 00:08:11.314 Don't listen to Hezekiah. 00:08:11.854 --> 00:08:14.704 These are the terms the King of Assyria is offering. 00:08:15.484 --> 00:08:16.624 Make peace with me. 00:08:17.104 --> 00:08:18.814 Open the gates and come out. 00:08:19.114 --> 00:08:22.714 Then each of you can continue eating from your own grapevine and fig 00:08:22.714 --> 00:08:24.694 tree, and drinking from your own. 00:08:24.694 --> 00:08:30.094 Well then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one, a land of 00:08:30.094 --> 00:08:33.274 grain and new wine, bread and vineyards. 00:08:34.264 --> 00:08:39.334 Don't let Hezekiah mislead you by saying the Lord will rescue us. 00:08:39.574 --> 00:08:43.144 Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people 00:08:43.149 --> 00:08:44.474 from the king of Assyria. 00:08:45.274 --> 00:08:51.244 What happened to the gods of Hamath and arpa, and what about the gods of Sveum? 00:08:51.664 --> 00:08:54.814 Did any God rescue Samaria from my power? 00:08:55.504 --> 00:08:58.684 What God of any nation has ever been able to save? 00:08:58.684 --> 00:09:00.274 Its people from my power. 00:09:00.874 --> 00:09:06.394 So what makes you think that the Lord can rescue Jerusalem from me, but the 00:09:06.394 --> 00:09:11.644 people were silent and did not utter a word because Hezekiah had commanded them. 00:09:12.004 --> 00:09:13.444 Do not answer him. 00:09:14.404 --> 00:09:19.594 Then Elia Kim, son of Hil, the palace administrator, EBNA, the court 00:09:19.599 --> 00:09:25.354 secretary and Joa son of saf, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. 00:09:26.074 --> 00:09:31.144 They tore their clothes in despair and they went in to see the king and told him 00:09:31.149 --> 00:09:33.334 what the Assyrian chief of staff had said. 00:09:34.354 --> 00:09:39.394 When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap 00:09:39.394 --> 00:09:40.934 and went into the temple of the Lord. 00:09:42.334 --> 00:09:47.044 He sent Elia Kim, the palace administrator, Shena, the court secretary, 00:09:47.284 --> 00:09:52.654 and the leading priests all dressed in burlap to the prophet Isaiah, son of AMAs. 00:09:53.554 --> 00:09:57.004 They told him, this is what King Hezekiah says. 00:09:57.694 --> 00:10:02.014 Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. 00:10:02.014 --> 00:10:05.764 It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has 00:10:05.764 --> 00:10:07.564 no strength to deliver the baby. 00:10:08.719 --> 00:10:12.949 But perhaps the Lord your God has heard the Assyrian chief of staff sent 00:10:12.949 --> 00:10:17.299 by the king to defy the living God and will punish him for his words. 00:10:18.079 --> 00:10:23.299 Oh, pray for those of us who are left after King Hezekiah's officials 00:10:23.299 --> 00:10:28.669 delivered the king's message to Isaiah, the prophet replied, say to your 00:10:28.669 --> 00:10:31.729 master, this is what the Lord says. 00:10:32.689 --> 00:10:36.739 Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from 00:10:36.739 --> 00:10:38.839 the Assyrian King's messengers. 00:10:39.409 --> 00:10:44.869 Listen, I myself will move against him and the king will receive a 00:10:44.874 --> 00:10:49.069 message that he is needed at home, so he will return to his land where 00:10:49.069 --> 00:10:51.079 I will have him killed with a sword. 00:10:52.309 --> 00:10:56.809 Meanwhile, the Assyrian chief of staff left Jerusalem and went to 00:10:56.809 --> 00:11:01.099 consult the king of Assyria who had left Laish and was attacking lib. 00:11:02.569 --> 00:11:08.359 Soon afterward, king Sakib received word that King Toga of Ethiopia was 00:11:08.359 --> 00:11:10.429 leading an army to fight against him. 00:11:11.089 --> 00:11:15.409 Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah 00:11:15.409 --> 00:11:17.419 in Jerusalem with this message. 00:11:18.529 --> 00:11:21.439 This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. 00:11:22.189 --> 00:11:26.929 Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you with promises 00:11:26.929 --> 00:11:30.169 that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. 00:11:31.114 --> 00:11:34.294 You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done. 00:11:34.294 --> 00:11:37.954 Wherever they have gone, they have completely destroyed 00:11:37.954 --> 00:11:39.724 everyone who stood in their way. 00:11:40.204 --> 00:11:42.124 Why should you be any different? 00:11:42.814 --> 00:11:49.714 Have the gods of other nations rescued them such nations as goin Heron, resif, 00:11:49.744 --> 00:11:55.084 and the people of Eden who were in Tessa, my predecessors, destroyed them all. 00:11:55.834 --> 00:11:59.014 What happened to the king of Hamath and the King of rpa? 00:11:59.809 --> 00:12:03.589 What happened to the kings of Sveum, Hena and Eva? 00:12:04.849 --> 00:12:09.049 After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he 00:12:09.049 --> 00:12:13.639 went up to the Lord's temple and spread it out before the Lord and Hezekiah 00:12:13.644 --> 00:12:15.499 prayed this prayer before the Lord. 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.059 Oh Lord of heaven's armies, God of Israel. 00:12:20.449 --> 00:12:22.879 You are enthroned between the mighty cherubim. 00:12:23.809 --> 00:12:26.809 You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:30.169 You alone created the heavens and the earth. 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.469 Bend down, oh Lord, and listen. 00:12:34.009 --> 00:12:39.169 Open your eyes, oh Lord, and see, listen to SIB's words of 00:12:39.169 --> 00:12:41.179 defiance against the living God. 00:12:42.049 --> 00:12:46.879 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations 00:12:47.419 --> 00:12:51.319 and they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. 00:12:52.414 --> 00:12:54.664 Of course the Assyrians could destroy them. 00:12:55.354 --> 00:12:56.704 They were not Gods at all. 00:12:56.914 --> 00:13:00.334 Only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands. 00:13:01.054 --> 00:13:05.464 Now, oh Lord, our God rescue us from his power. 00:13:05.794 --> 00:13:08.794 Then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.414 Oh Lord our God. 00:13:11.554 --> 00:13:15.604 Then Isaiah son of Amos, sent this message to Hezekiah. 00:13:16.684 --> 00:13:19.954 This is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:13:20.599 --> 00:13:23.599 Because you prayed about King sin of Assyria. 00:13:24.289 --> 00:13:26.959 The Lord has spoken this word against him. 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:32.269 The Virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you. 00:13:33.019 --> 00:13:37.369 The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head in derision as you flee. 00:13:38.239 --> 00:13:42.409 Whom have you been defying and ridiculing against? 00:13:42.409 --> 00:13:44.119 Whom did you raise your voice? 00:13:44.809 --> 00:13:47.629 At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? 00:13:48.079 --> 00:13:50.389 It was the holy one of Israel. 00:13:51.229 --> 00:13:53.839 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord. 00:13:54.139 --> 00:13:59.059 You have said, with my many chariots, I have conquered the highest mountains. 00:13:59.299 --> 00:14:01.639 Yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon. 00:14:02.254 --> 00:14:03.604 I have cut down. 00:14:03.604 --> 00:14:07.234 Its tallest cedars and its finest Cyrus trees. 00:14:07.504 --> 00:14:11.524 I have reached its farthest heights and explored its deepest forests. 00:14:11.824 --> 00:14:16.114 I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their 00:14:16.114 --> 00:14:18.934 water, with the sole of my foot. 00:14:19.174 --> 00:14:23.884 I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt, but have you not heard? 00:14:24.604 --> 00:14:26.524 I decided this long ago. 00:14:27.184 --> 00:14:27.814 Long ago. 00:14:27.814 --> 00:14:30.934 I planned it, and now I am making it happen. 00:14:31.699 --> 00:14:35.749 I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble. 00:14:36.379 --> 00:14:41.179 That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. 00:14:41.749 --> 00:14:46.249 They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green. 00:14:46.249 --> 00:14:46.909 Chs. 00:14:47.659 --> 00:14:51.289 They are like grass sprouting on a house top scorched before 00:14:51.289 --> 00:14:52.969 it can grow lush and tall. 00:14:54.019 --> 00:14:55.279 But I know you well. 00:14:55.789 --> 00:14:58.969 Where you stay and when you come and go. 00:14:59.419 --> 00:15:04.549 I know the way you have raged against me, and because of your raging against 00:15:04.549 --> 00:15:09.769 me and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself, I will put my hook 00:15:09.774 --> 00:15:12.529 in your nose and my bit in your mouth. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.549 I will make you return by the same road on which you came. 00:15:17.689 --> 00:15:23.179 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, here is the proof that what I say is true. 00:15:24.274 --> 00:15:29.614 This year you will eat only what grows up by itself and next year you 00:15:29.614 --> 00:15:31.534 will eat what springs up from that. 00:15:32.344 --> 00:15:35.644 But in the third year, you will plant crops and harvest them. 00:15:35.974 --> 00:15:38.494 You will tend vineyards and eat their fruit. 00:15:38.944 --> 00:15:43.024 And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the 00:15:43.029 --> 00:15:48.214 siege, will put roots down in your own soil and grow up and flourish. 00:15:48.994 --> 00:15:52.894 For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem, a group 00:15:52.894 --> 00:15:54.874 of survivors from Mount Zion. 00:15:55.474 --> 00:15:59.914 The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven's armies will make this happen. 00:16:00.934 --> 00:16:03.874 And this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria. 00:16:04.254 --> 00:16:07.324 His armies will not enter Jerusalem. 00:16:07.844 --> 00:16:10.324 They will not even shoot an arrow at it. 00:16:11.134 --> 00:16:15.034 They will not march outside its gates with their shields, nor build 00:16:15.034 --> 00:16:17.254 banks of earth against its walls. 00:16:17.824 --> 00:16:23.074 The king will return to his own country by the same road on which he came. 00:16:23.464 --> 00:16:26.764 He will not enter this city, says the Lord. 00:16:27.634 --> 00:16:33.244 For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city 00:16:33.249 --> 00:16:39.214 and protected that night, the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp 00:16:39.214 --> 00:16:43.294 and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. 00:16:44.329 --> 00:16:47.329 When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, 00:16:47.689 --> 00:16:49.729 they found corpses everywhere. 00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:54.919 Then King Sakib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. 00:16:55.309 --> 00:17:00.529 He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there one day while he was 00:17:00.534 --> 00:17:02.419 worshiping in the temple of his God. 00:17:02.449 --> 00:17:03.139 Nis rock. 00:17:03.439 --> 00:17:07.069 His sons Aek and Zer killed him with their swords. 00:17:08.074 --> 00:17:13.444 They then escaped to the land of ect and another son, ISAR Hadden 00:17:13.504 --> 00:17:15.424 became the next king of Assyria. 00:17:17.014 --> 00:17:22.084 About that time, Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah's 00:17:22.089 --> 00:17:24.274 son of Amos went to visit him. 00:17:24.844 --> 00:17:26.734 He gave the king this message. 00:17:27.454 --> 00:17:29.044 This is what the Lord says. 00:17:29.584 --> 00:17:32.824 Set your affairs in order for you are going to die. 00:17:33.184 --> 00:17:35.194 You will not recover from this illness. 00:17:36.214 --> 00:17:40.984 When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. 00:17:41.644 --> 00:17:46.144 Remember, oh Lord, how I have always been faithful to you and 00:17:46.144 --> 00:17:50.434 have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you. 00:17:51.664 --> 00:17:54.094 Then he broke down and wept bitterly. 00:17:55.154 --> 00:17:58.024 Then this message came to Isaiah from the Lord. 00:17:58.714 --> 00:18:02.884 Go back to Hezekiah and tell him this is what the Lord the God 00:18:02.884 --> 00:18:04.834 of your ancestor, David says. 00:18:05.854 --> 00:18:08.644 I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. 00:18:09.454 --> 00:18:14.044 I will add 15 years to your life and I will rescue you and this 00:18:14.044 --> 00:18:15.724 city from the king of Assyria. 00:18:16.414 --> 00:18:22.084 Yes, I will defend this city and this is the sign from the Lord to prove 00:18:22.084 --> 00:18:27.214 that he will do as he promised, I will cause the sun's shadow to move 10 00:18:27.214 --> 00:18:29.884 steps backward on the sundial of ahaz. 00:18:30.544 --> 00:18:33.214 So the shadow on the sundial moved backward. 00:18:33.214 --> 00:18:34.114 10 steps. 00:18:35.269 --> 00:18:40.969 When King Hezekiah was, well again, he wrote this poem, I said, 00:18:41.539 --> 00:18:45.829 in the prime of my life, must I now enter the place of the dead? 00:18:46.399 --> 00:18:48.889 Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years? 00:18:49.549 --> 00:18:54.709 I said, never again will I see the Lord God while still in the land of the living? 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:00.169 Never again will I see my friends or be with those who live in this world. 00:19:01.129 --> 00:19:05.539 My life has been blown away like a shepherd's tent in a storm. 00:19:06.289 --> 00:19:10.459 It has been cut short as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom. 00:19:11.239 --> 00:19:13.279 Suddenly, my life was over. 00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:18.709 I waited patiently all night, but I was torn apart as though by lions. 00:19:19.219 --> 00:19:23.269 Suddenly my life was over delirious. 00:19:23.659 --> 00:19:28.399 I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. 00:19:29.449 --> 00:19:32.359 My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. 00:19:32.869 --> 00:19:34.039 I am in trouble. 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:35.539 Lord, help me. 00:19:36.619 --> 00:19:40.879 But what could I say, for He himself sent this sickness. 00:19:41.749 --> 00:19:46.579 Now I will walk humbly throughout my years because of this anguish I have felt. 00:19:47.329 --> 00:19:51.919 Lord, your discipline is good for it leads to life and health. 00:19:52.189 --> 00:19:54.979 You restore my health and allow me to live. 00:19:55.714 --> 00:19:58.174 Yes, this anguish was good for me. 00:19:58.504 --> 00:20:02.434 For you have rescued me from death and forgiven all my sins. 00:20:03.094 --> 00:20:05.164 For the dead cannot praise you. 00:20:05.554 --> 00:20:07.834 They cannot raise their voices in praise. 00:20:08.464 --> 00:20:12.784 Those who go down to the grave can no longer hope in your faithfulness. 00:20:13.384 --> 00:20:16.114 Only the living can praise you as I do today. 00:20:17.074 --> 00:20:21.094 Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next Think of 00:20:21.094 --> 00:20:23.464 it, the Lord is ready to heal me. 00:20:24.034 --> 00:20:27.664 I will sing his praises with instruments every day of my life. 00:20:27.694 --> 00:20:33.634 In the temple of the Lord, Isaiah had said to Hezekiah's servants, make an 00:20:33.634 --> 00:20:38.344 ointment from figs and spread it over the boil, and Hezekiah will recover. 00:20:39.394 --> 00:20:43.174 And Hezekiah had asked, what sign will prove that I will 00:20:43.174 --> 00:20:44.165 go to the temple of the Lord? 00:20:45.904 --> 00:20:52.504 Soon after this Roak bein son of bein, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah 00:20:52.504 --> 00:20:57.064 his best wishes and a gift he had heard that Hezekiah had been very 00:20:57.069 --> 00:20:58.864 sick and that he had recovered. 00:20:59.584 --> 00:21:04.834 Hezekiah was delighted with the Babylonian envoys and showed them everything in 00:21:04.834 --> 00:21:10.474 his treasure houses, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the aromatic oils. 00:21:10.804 --> 00:21:14.314 He also took them to see his armory and showed them everything 00:21:14.314 --> 00:21:15.634 in his royal treasuries. 00:21:16.114 --> 00:21:19.984 There was nothing in his palace or kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them. 00:21:20.944 --> 00:21:24.124 Then Isaiah the prophet, went to King Hezekiah and asked 00:21:24.124 --> 00:21:26.554 him, what did those men want? 00:21:26.854 --> 00:21:27.784 Where were they from? 00:21:28.534 --> 00:21:32.854 Hezekiah replied, they came from the distant land of Babylon. 00:21:33.994 --> 00:21:36.034 What did they see in your palace? 00:21:36.184 --> 00:21:37.114 Asked Isaiah. 00:21:37.474 --> 00:21:39.994 They saw everything Hezekiah replied. 00:21:40.699 --> 00:21:44.479 I showed them everything I own, all my royal treasuries. 00:21:45.469 --> 00:21:49.879 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, listen to this message from 00:21:49.879 --> 00:21:51.379 the Lord of Heaven's armies. 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.269 The time is coming when everything in your palace, all the treasures 00:21:56.274 --> 00:22:01.039 stored up by your ancestors until now will be carried off to Babylon. 00:22:01.729 --> 00:22:03.979 Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.539 Some of your very own sons will be taken away into exile. 00:22:09.199 --> 00:22:13.129 They will become eunuchs who will serve in the palace of Babylon's King. 00:22:14.239 --> 00:22:19.039 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, this message you have given me from 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:23.989 the Lord is good for the king was thinking at least there will be peace 00:22:23.994 --> 00:22:26.149 and security during my lifetime. 00:22:28.429 --> 00:22:31.279 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:22:31.429 --> 00:22:32.509 Thank you for joining us.