IsaiYAH

chapter 37 of 66 (38 verses.)

IsaiYAH 37

Hezekiah Prays For YAH To Defeat Assyria1

King HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH} hears [his ambassador's report]. He immediately rips his clothes. He covers his body with sack-cloth. He [runs] into YHVH's temple.

Then [HezekiYah] sends [his] palace administrator Eliakim {EL-Raises}, and [his royal] secretary Shebna {Grower}, and [Jerusalem's] elder-priests, [all] clothed in sackcloth, to [consult] the prophet IsaiYah (son of Amoz).

The [ambassadors] groan to [the prophet,] “[King] HezekiYah [moans], ‘Today is a day of disaster, of punishment, of disgrace, like when a baby crowns to be born, but [the mother] has no strength to push it out.’

—The Assyrian Emperor sent his servant the Rabshakeh to taunt the living Elohim. Maybe YHVH your Elohim will hear and overturn the [commander's] boasts. YHVH your Elohim hears [the Assyrian's challenge]. So lift up your prayer for [our small] remnant [of Jews] left [in Judea].”

The envoys of king HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH} [lean forward to hear] IsaiYah's [response].

IsaiYah answers the [royal envoys], “Say this to your master: YHVH says, ‘Never fear the words you've heard. [Ignore] the blasphemy of the servants of the Assyrian Emperor.

—Watch me send a blast [of spirit-power] upon [the Emperor]. He soon hears [troubling] news. He [rushes] back to his home country. I [then] cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’”

[Meanwhile, the] Rabshakeh leaves [Jerusalem for] Lachish {Harvest}. On the way, the [Rabshakeh] hears that the Assyrian Emperor has left [Lachish] to war against Libnah {White-Tree}.

[There Sennacherib] hears a spy say, “Tirhakah, the Ethiopian king of Egypt, is marching his armies up [here] to war against you.” Hearing this, [Sennacherib] sends messengers [back] to [Judea's king] HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH}.

[Sennacherib says,] “Say the following to Judea's king HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH}: “Don't let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you by saying, ‘[I] won't give Jerusalem into the hand of the Assyrian Emperor.’

—Watch [out]. You've heard what the kings of Assyria always do to all countries. We utterly destroy [all our enemies]. And you [think YHVH] will deliver you? [Ha!]

—Did the gods of the beast-nations rescue the [countries] my fathers destroyed, like Gozan {Stone-Quarry}, Haran {Scorch}, Rezeph {Red-Hot-Stone}, and the spawn of Eden {Pleasure} in Telassar {Success-Hill}?

—Where is the king of Hamath {Joined-Walls}, and the king of Arphad {Spread-Out}, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim {Twin}, [or] Hena, or Ivah {Crook}?’”

HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH} receives the letter from the hand of [Sennacherib's] messengers. He reads it. [Immediately] HezekiYah [runs] up to the temple of YHVH. He spreads [out the letter] before YHVH.

Then HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH} prays to YHVH.

[Hezekiah prays,] “Oh YHVH-Commander-Of-Armies, Elohim of Israel, [you] who dwell amidst cherubim: you are the sole Elohim {Sovereign} over all the kingdoms of the globe. You make heaven and earth.

—Please bend [down] your ear, YHVH. Hear [my prayer]. Please open your eyes, YHVH. See [our disaster looming]. Hear all the boasts [Emperor] Sennacherib sends to taunt [you,] the living Elohim.

—Truly, YHVH, the Assyrian Emperors have laid waste all [nearby] nations' lands.

The [Assyrians] hurl [all] nations' idol-gods into the fire. [But] the [icons] aren't [real] Elohim {Powers}. They're just the work of men's hands: wood and stone. So it's [trivial for] the [Assyrians to] utterly destroy [those idols].

So now, YHVH our Elohim, please save us [Hebrews] from [Sennacherib's] hand, so all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone are YHVH, [the eternally-existent Almighty Creator].”
A good prayer focuses not on your needs, but what's more important: YAH's reputation.

YAH Promises To Save Judea From Assyria21

Then IsaiYah (the son of Amoz) sends [messengers] to HezekiYah {Strength-From-YAH}. The [messengers] say, “YHVH (Israel's Elohim) says, ‘[I hear] you praying, [asking] me to fight Assyria's Emperor Sennacherib.’

—This is the decree YHVH speaks concerning [Sennacherib]: ‘The virgin, Zion's daughter, despises you. [Judea] laughs you to scorn. [YAH's little] daughter-population (Jerusalem) shakes her head at your [shameful arrogance].

—Who do you keep insulting and blaspheming? Against whom do you exalt your voice, and lift up your haughty eyes? [You] fight the Sacred Sovereign of Israel!’

—Via your envoys, you reproach YHVH. You brag, ‘With my countless chariots I ascend the heights of [earth's] pinnacles. [I scale] the sides of [the] Lebanon {White-Mountains}. I cut down its tallest cedars and finest fir trees. I penetrate the remotest peaks. I chop the most fruitful forest [like I'm weeding my backyard garden].
The primitive texts say ‘YHVH’, not ‘Adonai’ (Lord) in this and thousands of other verses.

—I dig [wells]. I suck [out earth's] water. With the sole[s] of my [soldiers'] feet, I dry up all the rivers of any [country] I besiege.’

—[But I, YHVH, say,] ‘Have you not heard that long ago I accomplished [your feats just by imagining them]? I formed [your life-story] in antiquity. Today I bring to pass [my plan]. [I brought you into] existence to [smash] fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

—[It's because of Me that your target] populations [cower,] powerless, confused, depressed. I make your enemy nations [helpless] as sod, as [easily trampled] as tender green shoots, [trivial to scorch,] like grass seeds sprouting on a housetop.

—But I know where you live. I [see] you leave and enter, [always] raging against me.

—Your fury and insolence against Me keep coming up into my ears. So I'm putting my hook in your nose. [Watch] My bridle [pierce] your lips. I'm turning you back by the way you came, [bigshot].”

[Isaiah says to Hezekiah,] 'Here's the proof [that YHVH will protect this (Jerusalem) city from Assyria]. This year you [Israelites] get to eat only what grows up by itself. Then next year you eat what springs up from that. But 3 years [from now] you plant crops and harvest them. You [finally] tend vineyards and eat their fruit.

—The surviving remnant population of Judea once again shoot down roots. They raise fruit.

—The zeal of YHVH-Commander-Of-Armies sends a remnant [nation streaming across the earth] from Jerusalem. Survivors [of the Assyrian siege flow] from mount Zion [to bring the Hebrew scriptures to the globe].

So YHVH promises, “This Assyrian Emperor [never] enters [Jerusalem] city. He never shoots [one] arrow there. He fails to [attack] it with shields. He [neglects to] erect a siege-ramp against it.

—[The enemy] returns by the way he came. He never [darkens your] city [gate],” promises YHVH.

—“For my own reputation, and to [honor my promises to] David {Love}, I defend and save the City-of-Peace.”
If you advertise yourself as YAH's servant, he might just save you to protect his own reputation.

Yah Supernaturally Kills 185000 Soldiers!36

Immediately [that night,] the angel of YHVH [flies] out into the Assyrian war-camp. [He] strikes [down] 185000 [invaders]. The [Israelis] rise early in the morning. They look out [from Jerusalem's walls]. They see dead [pagan] corpses [stretched to the horizon, 😇]!

So Assyria's Emperor Sennacherib retreats. He leaves [Israel]. He returns [~700km northeast] to live at Nineveh {Mosul-Iraq}.

One day, [Emperor Sennacherib lies] worshipping in the house of his [false] god Nisroch {Defender}. [Sennacherib's] two sons Adrammelech {Glorious-King-God} and Sharezer strike [their father-king] with the sword. They escape [240km north through the Iraqi desert] into the [beautiful] land of Armenia. So [Sennacherib's] son Esar-Haddon {Assur-Gives-A-Brother} reigns in [Sennacherib's] place.
Esar-Haddon goes on to rebuild the tower of Babel and to conquer nations from Iraq to Sidon to Egypt.