10. “Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’
11. 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?
12. Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
13. Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, or a king of the cities Sepharvaim, Hena or Ivvah?”
14. Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then he went up to the house of the Lord, and spreading it out before the Lord,
15. Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:
16. “Lord of hosts, God of Israel,enthroned on the cherubim!You alone are Godover all the kingdoms of the earth.It is you who madethe heavens and the earth.
17. Incline your ear, Lord, and listen!open your eyes, Lord, and see!Hear all the words Sennacherib has sentto taunt the living God.
18. Truly, O Lord,the kings of Assyria have laid wastethe nations and their lands.
19. They gave their gods to the fire—they were not gods at all,but the work of human hands—Wood and stone, they destroyed them.
20. Therefore, Lord, our God,save us from this man’s power,That all the kingdoms of the earth may knowthat you alone, Lord, are God.”
21. Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you have prayed concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria: I have listened!
22. This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him:She despises you, laughs you to scorn,the virgin daughter Zion;Behind you she wags her head,daughter Jerusalem.
23. Whom have you insulted and blasphemed,at whom have you raised your voiceAnd lifted up your eyes on high?At the Holy One of Israel!
24. Through the mouths of your messengersyou have insulted the Lord when you said:‘With my many chariots I went upto the tops of the peaks,to the recesses of Lebanon,To cut down its lofty cedars,its choice cypresses;I reached the farthest shelter,the forest ranges.
25. I myself dug wellsand drank foreign water;Drying up all the rivers of Egyptbeneath the soles of my feet.’
26. Have you not heard?A long time ago I prepared it,from days of old I planned it,Now I have brought it about:You are here to reducefortified cities to heaps of ruins,
27. Their people powerless,dismayed and distraught,They are plants of the field,green growth,thatch on the rooftops,Grain scorched by the east wind.
28. I know when you stand or sit,when you come or go,and how you rage against me.