Isaiah 36:20
Good News Translation
When did any of the gods of all these countries ever save their country from our emperor? Then what makes you think the LORD can save Jerusalem?"

New Revised Standard Version
Who among all the gods of these countries have saved their countries out of my hand, that the LORD should save Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

Contemporary English Version
None of those gods kept their people safe from the king of Assyria. Do you think the LORD, your God, can do any better?

New American Bible
Who among all the gods of these lands ever rescued their land from my power, that the LORD should save Jerusalem from my power?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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Isaiah 37:18,19,23-29 For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries. . . .

Isaiah 45:16,17 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion. . . .

Exodus 5:2 But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

2 Kings 19:22 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:15,19 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand. . . .

Job 15:25,26 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty. . . .

Job 40:9-12 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? . . .

Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

Psalm 73:9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Daniel 3:15 Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

Context
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
19Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20Who is there among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?21And they held their peace, and answered him not a word. For the king had commanded, saying: Answer him not.…
Cross References
1 Kings 20:23
But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

1 Kings 20:28
(And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

Isaiah 36:15
And let not Ezechias make you trust in the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.

Ezekiel 35:13
And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.

Isaiah 36:19
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