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.
20. Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus hath the Lord God of Israel said, That which thou hast prayed to me regarding Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21. This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: Has he despised thee? Has he laughed thee to scorn, O virgin daughter of Zion? He has moved his head behind thy back, O daughter of Jerusalem.
22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
23. By the hand of thy messengers, thou hast reproached the Lord and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof and the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the habitation of his borders and into the forest of his Carmel.
24. I have dug and drunk the waters of others, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of defended places.