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17 Extend your ear, Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, Lord, and look! Listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God. 18 It is true, Lord, that Assyrian kings have devastated all these countries,[a] 19 and have thrown their gods into the fire—but they are not gods, but rather the products[b] of human hands, mere wood and stone. So the Assyrians[c] destroyed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads countries and their land; some MTmss read nations and their land
  2. Isaiah 37:19 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads work
  3. Isaiah 37:19 Lit. So they

17 Give ear, Lord, and hear;(A) open your eyes, Lord, and see;(B) listen to all the words Sennacherib(C) has sent to ridicule(D) the living God.(E)

18 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.(F) 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire(G) and destroyed them,(H) for they were not gods(I) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(J)

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