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2 Kings 19:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Please pray for those of us who are left alive. The king of Assyria sent his army commander to insult the living God. Perhaps the LORD heard what he said and will do something, if you will pray.

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Abraham named that place “The LORD will Provide”. And even now people say, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

But if the LORD hears these curses and sees the trouble I'm in, perhaps he will have pity on me instead.

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's rule in Judah, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded the country and captured every walled city, except Jerusalem.

But just look how Sennacherib has insulted you, the living God.

Sennacherib, you cursed, shouted, and sneered at me, the holy God of Israel.

You let your officials insult me, the Lord. And here is what you have said about yourself, “I led my chariots to the highest heights of Lebanon's mountains. I went deep into its forest, cutting down the best cedar and cypress trees.

These are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it's time for her baby to be born.

Those who survive in Judah will be like a vine that puts down deep roots and bears fruit.

I, the LORD All-Powerful, will see to it that some who live in Jerusalem will survive.

When these leaders went to Isaiah,

Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz asked the LORD for help,

Pray to me in time of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honour me.

When you did all this, I didn't say a word, and you thought, “God is just like us!” But now I will accuse you.

Remember your enemies, LORD! They foolishly sneer and won't respect you.

Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the LORD All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.

to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

It seems that you each have your own news! So if you say, “Here is news from the LORD,” you are twisting my words into a lie. Remember that I am your God, the LORD All-Powerful.

Ask me, and I will tell you things that you don't know and can't find out.

and told them that the LORD God of Israel had said: You asked Jeremiah to pray and find out what you should do.

I will once again answer your prayers, and I will let your nation grow until you are like a large flock of sheep.

It is the same way now. God was kind to the people of Israel, and so a few of them are still his followers.

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, “The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

When only a few of the LORD's people remain, when their strength is gone, and some of them are slaves, the LORD will feel sorry for them and give them justice.

So I'm asking you for the hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You were there. You heard the other spies talk about that part of the hill country and the large, walled towns where the Anakim live. But perhaps the LORD will help me take their land, just as he promised.

The Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites control the land on the other side of the river. But the living God will be with you and will force them out of the land when you attack. And now, God is going to prove that he's powerful enough to force them out.

Jonathan and the soldier who carried his weapons talked as they went towards the Philistine camp. “It's just the two of us against all those godless men,” Jonathan said. “But the LORD can help a few soldiers win a battle just as easily as he can help a whole army. Perhaps the LORD will help us win this battle.”

Here and now I challenge Israel's whole army! Choose someone to fight me!

David asked some soldiers standing nearby, “What will a man get for killing this Philistine and stopping him from insulting our people? Who does that worthless Philistine think he is? He's making fun of the army of the living God!”

David answered: You've come out to fight me with a sword and a spear and a dagger. But I've come out to fight you in the name of the LORD All-Powerful. He is the God of Israel's army, and you have insulted him too!




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