Verse 5
Isaiah 36:5
World English Bible, British Edition
5
I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words.
Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
Original Language Text
hebrew
אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ אַךְ דְּבַר שְׂפָתַ֔יִם עֵצָ֥ה וּ/גְבוּרָ֖ה לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה עַתָּה֙ עַל מִ֣י בָטַ֔חְתָּ כִּ֥י מָרַ֖דְתָּ בִּֽ/י
English Translation
I said, "Surely the word of my lips is counsel and strength for battle; now on whom have you relied, because you have rebelled against me?"
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Chapter 36 Context
1
Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria
attacked all of the fortifi...
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2
The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King
Hezekiah with a large army. He...
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3
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, the so...
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4
Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the
king of Assyria, says, “What confid...
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5
I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words.
Now in whom do you trust, that...
6
Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which
if a man leans on it, it w...
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7
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God (Elohim),’ isn’t that he whose
high places and who...
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8
Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousa...
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9
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
master’s servants, and put you...
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10
Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it?
the LORD said to me, “Go up aga...
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11
Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak
to your servants in Aramaic, for we u...
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12
But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master
and to you, to speak these words, and...
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13
Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’
language, and said, “Hear the wo...
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14
The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be
able to deliver you.
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15
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will
surely deliver us. This city w...
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16
Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your
peace with me, and come out to me...
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17
until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
of grain and new wine, a land of...
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18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”
Have any of the gods of the n...
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19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
Have they delivered Samari...
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20
Who are they amongst all the gods of these countries that have delivered
their country out of my han...
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21
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the
king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer h...
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22
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the so...
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