The enemy runs at the sound of your voice. When you stand up, the nations flee!

喧嚷的响声一发，众民奔逃；你一兴起，列国四散。

轰然之声一发出，万民就奔逃；你一兴起，列国就四散。

轰然之声一发出，万民就奔逃；你一兴起，列国就四散。

你大喊一声，列邦都奔逃；你一站起来，列国都溃散。

喧嚷的声音一发，众民必逃跑；你一兴起，列国就四散。

轰然之声一发，万民就奔逃；你一兴起，列国就四散。

喧嚷的響聲一發，眾民奔逃；你一興起，列國四散。

轟然之聲一發出，萬民就奔逃；你一興起，列國就四散。

轟然之聲一發出，萬民就奔逃；你一興起，列國就四散。

你大喊一聲，列邦都奔逃；你一站起來，列國都潰散。

喧嚷的聲音一發，眾民必逃跑；你一興起，列國就四散。

喧嚷的響聲一發，萬族之民都逃跑；你一奮起，列國都四散。

轟然之聲一發，萬民就奔逃；你一興起，列國就四散。

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爾既勃興、群醜逃遁、威聲遠振、敵軍四散、

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At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee; when you rise up, the nations scatter.

At the roar of your army, the nations run away. When you rise up against them, they scatter.

At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,

The peoples flee at the thunderous noise; the nations scatter when you rise in your majesty.

At the sound of a roar, peoples flee; At the lifting up of Yourself, nations disperse.

At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee; When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;

At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations are scattered.

The peoples flee at the thunderous noise; the nations scatter when You rise in Your majesty.

At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; the nations scatter when you spring into action!

At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

He boasts,“ By my own powerful arm I have done this. With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it. I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. I have knocked down their kings like a bull.I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest.”

You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done wherever they have gone. They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way! Why should you be any different?Have the gods of other nations rescued them— such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord’s Temple and spread it out before the Lord.And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the Lord:“ O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.Bend down, O Lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God.“ It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.

He was amazed to see that no one intervened to help the oppressed. So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm, and his justice sustained him.He put on righteousness as his body armor and placed the helmet of salvation on his head. He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds. His fury will fall on his foes. He will pay them back even to the ends of the earth.

And because of your raging against me and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will make you return by the same road on which you came.”Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“ Here is the proof that what I say is true:“ This year you will eat only what grows up by itself, and next year you will eat what springs up from that. But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them; you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and grow up and flourish.For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem, a group of survivors from Mount Zion. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!“ And this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:“‘ His armies will not enter Jerusalem. They will not even shoot an arrow at it. They will not march outside its gates with their shields nor build banks of earth against its walls.The king will return to his own country by the same road on which he came. He will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.‘ For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.’”That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.

The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day. He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.But look! The Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will chop down the mighty tree of Assyria with great power! He will cut down the proud. That lofty tree will be brought down.He will cut down the forest trees with an ax. Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.

Listen! The armies of many nations roar like the roaring of the sea. Hear the thunder of the mighty forces as they rush forward like thundering waves.But though they thunder like breakers on a beach, God will silence them, and they will run away. They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind, like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.In the evening Israel waits in terror, but by dawn its enemies are dead. This is the just reward of those who plunder us, a fitting end for those who destroy us.

The nations are in chaos, and their kingdoms crumble! God’s voice thunders, and the earth melts!