Yet at the scent of water [the stump of the tree] will flourish
And bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.

“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;
You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].

“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;
While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.

“They lift up their voices and sing to the tambourine and the lyre
And rejoice to the sound of the flute.

“You have sent widows away empty-handed,
And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.

“How you have counseled the one who has no wisdom!
And how abundantly you have provided sound wisdom and helpful insight!

“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.

“Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that goes out of His mouth!

“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],

“With fierceness and rage he races to devour the ground,
And he does not stand still at the sound of the [war] trumpet.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,
For to You I pray.

He sent out His arrows and scattered them;
And He sent an abundance of lightning flashes and confused and routed them [in defeat].

May He send you help from the sanctuary (His dwelling place)
And support and strengthen you from Zion!

For You meet him with blessings of good things;
You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully [on the strings] with a loud and joyful sound.

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;
How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

God has ascended amid shouting,
The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

He will send from heaven and save me;
He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.
God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.

Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.

He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.

He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

Israel sent out its branches to the [Mediterranean] Sea,
And its branches to the [Euphrates] River.

Raise a song, sound the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Blessed and happy are the people who know the joyful sound [of the trumpet’s blast]!
They walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!

With an instrument of ten strings and with the harp,
With a solemn sound on the lyre.

With trumpets and the sound of the horn
Shout with joy before the King, the Lord.

You send out Your Spirit, they are created;
You renew the face of the ground.

He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.

He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.

The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

He has sent redemption to His people;
He has ordained His covenant forever;
Holy and awesome is His name—[inspiring reverence and godly fear].

They have hands, but they cannot feel;
They have feet, but they cannot walk;
Nor can they make a sound with their throats.

O Lord, save now, we beseech You;
O Lord, we beseech You, send now prosperity and give us success!

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes,
So that I will not be ashamed.

Who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.

If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.

Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.

The wise will hear and increase their learning,
And the person of understanding will acquire wise counsel and the skill [to steer his course wisely and lead others to the truth],

He stores away sound wisdom for the righteous [those who are in right standing with Him];
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity [those of honorable character and moral courage],

My son, let them not escape from your sight,
But keep sound wisdom and discretion,

“Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;
I am understanding, power and strength are mine.

She has sent out her maidens, she calls
From the highest places of the city:

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
So is the lazy one to those who send him to work.

As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout,
So is a beautiful woman who is without discretion [her lack of character mocks her beauty].

A rebellious man seeks only evil;
Therefore a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

He who [willfully] separates himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire,
He quarrels against all sound wisdom.

To let you know the certainty of the words of truth,
That you may give a correct answer to him who sent you?

Through [skillful and godly] wisdom a house [a life, a home, a family] is built,
And by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation],

Like the cold of snow [brought from the mountains] in the time of harvest,
So is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
For he refreshes the life of his masters.

Stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But a fool’s [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give off a foul odor; so a little foolishness [in one who is esteemed] outweighs wisdom and honor.

when the doors (lips) are shut in the streets and the sound of the grinding [of the teeth] is low, and one rises at the sound of a bird and the crowing of a rooster, and all the daughters of music (voice, ears) sing softly.

“My beloved is to me like a pouch of myrrh
Which lies all night between my breasts.

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;
I will grasp its branches.
Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,
And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

signet [finger] rings, nose rings,

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob,
And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].

I send Assyria against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My wrath
To take the spoil and to seize the plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among the stout warriors of Assyria;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

For though your people, O Israel, may be as the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
The destruction is determined [it is decided and destined for completion], overflowing with justice (righteous punishment).

‘Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,
Along with the music of your harps;
The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed]
And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

Send lambs to the ruler of the land [you Moabites],
From Sela [that is, Petra in Edom] through the wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem).

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing or joyful sound;
No treader treads out wine in the presses,
For I (God) put an end to the joyful shouting.

It will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior, a [Great] Defender, and He will rescue them.

In the year that the Tartan [the Assyrian commander in chief] came to Ashdod [in Philistia], when Sargon king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,

In the generations to come Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will most certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry for help; when He hears it, He will answer you.

And every blow of the rod of punishment,
Which the Lord will lay on them,
Will be to the music of Israel’s tambourines and lyres;
And in battles, brandishing weapons, He will fight Assyria.

Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land],
You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.

And the burning sand (mirage) will become a pool [of water]
And the thirsty ground springs of water;
In the haunt of jackals, where they lay resting,
Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh [his military commander] from Lachish [the Judean fortress commanding the road from Egypt] to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a large army. And he stood by the canal of the Upper Pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.

But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the [royal] household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh [the commander], whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to taunt and defy the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant [of His people] that is left.’”

And Sennacherib king of Assyria, heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush (Ethiopia), “He has come out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt and defy the living God.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “For the Lord, the God of Israel says this, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent [messengers with] letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

Who is blind but My servant [Israel],
Or deaf like My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind like the one who is at peace with Me [in a covenant relationship],
Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

This is what the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says,

“For your sake I have sent [one] to Babylon,
And I will bring down all of them as fugitives,
Even the Chaldeans [who reign in Babylon], into the ships over which they rejoiced.

“Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
From the time that it happened, I was there.
And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His [Holy] Spirit.”

“Your offspring would have been like the sand,
And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;
Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

So will My word be which goes out of My mouth;
It will not return to Me void (useless, without result),
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

“You have gone to the king [of a pagan land] with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your messengers a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me
To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,
To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives
And freedom to prisoners,

“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

I will set up a [miraculous] sign among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations: Tarshish, Pul (Put), Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant islands and coastlands that have not heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare and proclaim My glory among the nations.

But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.