Isaiah 37:11
Good News Translation
You have heard what an Assyrian emperor does to any country he decides to destroy. Do you think that you can escape?

New Revised Standard Version
See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Contemporary English Version
You have heard how we Assyrian kings have completely wiped out other nations. What makes you feel so safe?

New American Bible
You, certainly, have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands: they put them under the ban! And are you to be delivered?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered?

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

Isaiah 10:7-14 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. . . .

Isaiah 14:17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

Isaiah 36:18-20 Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians? . . .

2 Kings 17:4-6 And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring to rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison. . . .

2 Kings 18:33-35 Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria? . . .

Context
Sennacherib's Blasphemous Letter
10Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. 11Behold thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all countries which they have destroyed, and canst thou be delivered?12Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reseph, and the children of Eden, that were in Thalassar?…
Cross References
Isaiah 10:9
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

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.

Isaiah 36:18
Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

Isaiah 36:19
Where is the god of Emath and of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 37:10
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