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For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

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Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

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For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

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The angel of Yahweh went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

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It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

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In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

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and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,

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“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

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I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

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This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

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Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”‘”

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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

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I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

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I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

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What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

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Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

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Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

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Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.

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Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

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Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?”

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At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

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Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

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Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? Where did they come from to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”

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Then he asked, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

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Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

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Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

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They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

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“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

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“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

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The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

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The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

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The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

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The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

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You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

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Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

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He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?

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Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

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Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

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Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

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All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

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He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

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Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

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who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

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They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

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“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

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Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

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Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

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Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

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He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

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Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;

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But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

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Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

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He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

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Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

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The islands have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble. They approach, and come.

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Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

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So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

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“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

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You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;’

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Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

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You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

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For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

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Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

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You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

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I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

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that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.

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“Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

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Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

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Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

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“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

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Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? And before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

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I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

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When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

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Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

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“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights– I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

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He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

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He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.