<p class="poetry">Just as birds hover over a nest,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will protect Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will protect and deliver it;p> <p class="poetry">as he passes over<n id="3" /> he will rescue it.p>

This is what the king says: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?<n id="1" /> Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria<n id="2" /> from my power?<n id="3" />

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands.<n id="1" /> Do you really think you will be rescued?<n id="2" />

and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="poetry">From this day forward I am he;p> <p class="poetry">no one can deliver from my power;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will act, and who can prevent it?&#8221;p>

Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you,<n id="1" /> for I will be with you to protect<n id="2" /> you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.

They will attack you but they will not be able to overcome you, for I will be with you to rescue you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Sing to the <sc>Lordsc>! Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">For he rescues the oppressed from the clutches of evildoers.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Soon<n id="1" /> I will expose her lewd nakedness<n id="2" /> in front of her lovers,p> <p class="poetry">and no one will be able to rescue her from me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He does this so he can build his nest way up highp> <p class="poetry">and escape the clutches of disaster.<n id="2" />p>

David went on to say, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!&#8221; Then Saul said to David, &#8220;Go! The <sc>Lordsc> will be with you.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power?<n id="1" />

He wrote letters mocking the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel and insulting him with these words:<n id="1" /> &#8220;The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah&#8217;s god rescue his people from my power.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.p>

Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion&#8217;s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear,p> <p class="poetry">so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be left with just a corner of a bed,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and a part<n id="3" /> of a couch.&#8221;p>

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.&#8221;p>

Rescue me,<n id="1" /> I pray, from the hand<n id="2" /> of my brother Esau,<n id="3" /> for I am afraid he will come<n id="4" /> and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.<n id="5" />

So Jacob named the place Peniel,<n id="1" /> explaining,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Certainly<n id="3" /> I have seen God face to face<n id="4" /> and have survived.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>