4. Peradventure, the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to reproach the living God and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God has heard; therefore, lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
5. So the slaves of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6. And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus hath the Lord said, Do not be afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7. Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8. So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9. And when he heard it said of Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10. Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou dost trust deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11. Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12. Peradventure have the gods of the Gentiles delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were in Thelasar?
13. Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14. And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
15. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, saying, O Lord God of Israel, who dwellest above the cherubim, thou alone art the God unto all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16. Incline, O Lord, thy ear and hear; open, O Lord, thine eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
17. Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the Gentiles and their lands
18. and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood or stone; therefore, they have destroyed them.
19. Now, therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save us now out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the Lord God.