Isaiah 36 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And it came to be in the fourteenth year of Sovereign Ḥ

² And the sovereign of Ashshur sent the Raḇ

³ And there came to him Elyaqim son of Ḥ

⁴ The Raḇ

⁵ “I say: You speak of having counsel and strength for battle, but they are vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

⁶ “Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

⁷ “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה  our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Ḥ

⁸ “And now, I urge you, please give a pledge to my master the sovereign of Ashshur, and I give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

⁹ “And how do you refuse one officer of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Mitsrayim for chariots and horsemen?

¹⁰ “And now, have I come up without יהוה  against this land to destroy it? יהוה  said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”

¹¹ And Elyaqim, Sheḇ

¹² But the Raḇ

¹³ And the Raḇ

¹⁴ “Thus said the sovereign, ‘Do not let Ḥ

¹⁵ and do not let Ḥ

¹⁶ “Do not listen to Ḥ

¹⁷ until I come. Then I shall take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

¹⁸ ‘Beware lest Ḥ

¹⁹ ‘Where are the mighty ones of Ḥ

²⁰ ‘Who among all the mighty ones of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that יהוה  should deliver Yerushalayim from my hand?’ ”

²¹ But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the command of the sovereign was, “Do not answer him.”

²² And Elyaqim son of Ḥ