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.