“Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 36 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.