This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”p>

<p class="poetry">He will go back the way he came &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he will not enter this city,&#8217; says the <sc>Lord.sc>p>

<p class="poetry">He will not grow dim or be crushed<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">before establishing justice on the earth;p> <p class="poetry">the coastlands<n id="2" /> will wait in anticipation for his decrees.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc>! That is my name!p> <p class="poetry">I will not share my glory with anyone else,p> <p class="poetry">or the praise due me with idols.p>

<p class="poetry">I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake;p> <p class="poetry">your sins I do not remember.p>

<p class="poetry">They do not comprehend or understand,p> <p class="poetry">for their eyes are blind and cannot see;p> <p class="poetry">their minds do not discern.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Israel will be delivered once and for all by the <sc>Lordsc>;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Together they bend low and kneel down;p> <p class="poetry">they are unable to rescue the images;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they themselves<n id="2" /> head off into captivity.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For my sake alone<n id="1" /> I will act,p> <p class="poetry">for how can I allow my name to be defiled?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will not share my glory with anyone else!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your children<n id="2" /> like its granules.p> <p class="poetry">Their name would not have been cut offp> <p class="poetry">and eliminated from my presence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Even if mothers<n id="3" /> were to forget,p> <p class="poetry">I could never forget you!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I offered my back to those who attacked,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my jaws to those who tore out my beard;p> <p class="poetry">I did not hide my facep> <p class="poetry">from insults and spitting.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;O afflicted one, driven away,<n id="1" /> and unconsoled!p> <p class="poetry">Look, I am about to set your stones in antimonyp> <p class="poetry">and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed,<n id="1" /> my plans<n id="2" /> are not like<n id="3" /> your plans,p> <p class="poetry">and my deeds<n id="4" /> are not like<n id="5" /> your deeds,p>

<p class="poetry">But the wicked are like a surging seap> <p class="poetry">that is unable to be quiet;p> <p class="poetry">its waves toss up mud and sand.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s hand is not too weak<n id="1" /> to deliver you;p> <p class="poetry">his ear is not too deaf to hear you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish;p> <p class="poetry">such nations will be totally destroyed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will be called, &#8220;The Holy People,p> <p class="poetry">the Ones Protected<n id="1" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">You will be called, &#8220;Sought After,p> <p class="poetry">City Not Abandoned.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He said, &#8220;Certainly they will be my people,p> <p class="poetry">children who are not disloyal.&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He became their deliverer.p>