19:9And when he heard of Theraca king of Ethiopia: Look, he is come out to fight with you: and was going against him, he sent messengers to Ezechias, saying:

10Thus shall you say to Ezechias king of Juda: Let not your God deceive you, in whom you trustest: and do not say: Jerusalem shall not be rescued into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.

11Look you have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries, how they have laid them waste: and canst you alone be rescued?

14And when Ezechias had received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,

15And he prayed in his sight, saying: O Lord God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone art the God of all the kings of the earth: you madest heaven and earth:

16Incline your ear, and hear: open, O Lord, your eyes, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to upbraid to us the living God.

17Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.

18And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not Rods, but the works of men's hands of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

19Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that you are the Lord the only God.

20And Isaias the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus says the Lord the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer you have made to me concerning Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.

21This is the word, that the Lord has said of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem has wagged her head behind your back.

31For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

32Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

33By the way that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, says the Lord.

34And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David my servant's sake.

35And it happened that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

36And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departing went away, and he re- turned and abode in Ninive.

48:2Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

3With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

4In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

10We have received your mercy, O God, in the midst of your temple.

11According to your name, O God, so also is your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.

7:6Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

12All things therefore whatever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

13Enter you in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.

14How narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!