Isaiah 37:18

"Turn your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes divine attentiveness and responsiveness. The plea for the Lord to hear and see calls upon Him to intervene against the rebellious Assyrian king Sennacherib, highlighting the contrast between human defiance and God’s omniscience and power.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Of a truth -It is as he has said, that all the nations had been subjected to the arms of the Assyrian. He now intends to add Jerusalem to the number of vanquished cities and kingdoms, and to boast; that he has subdued the nation under the protection of Yahweh, as he had done the nations under the protection of idol-gods. Have laid waste all, the nations -Hebrew, as Margin, ‘All the lands.’ But this is evidently an elliptical form of expression, meaning all the inhabitants or people of the lands. In2 Kings 19:17, it is thus expressed.

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