19. So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”
20. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21. This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:“She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion;she wags her head behind you—the daughter of Jerusalem.
22. “Whom have you mocked and reviled?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes to the heights?Against the Holy One of Israel!
23. By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,and you have said, ‘With my many chariotsI have gone up the heights of the mountains,to the far recesses of Lebanon;I felled its tallest cedars,its choicest cypresses;I entered its farthest lodging place,its most fruitful forest.
24. I dug wellsand drank foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’
25. “Have you not heardthat I determined it long ago?I planned from days of oldwhat now I bring to pass,that you should turn fortified citiesinto heaps of ruins,
26. while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,are dismayed and confounded,and have become like plants of the fieldand like tender grass,like grass on the housetops,blighted before it is grown.
27. “But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in,and your raging against me.