You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

You have made the nation larger, O Lord, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.

Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, the powerful ruler of Israel, says this: “Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies.

So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

The Lord will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah – the king of Assyria!”

But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!

When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the Lord goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls, ‘Deliverance,’ and your gates, ‘Praise.’

But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.

and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.

“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.