13. Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”
14. Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
15. Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits on the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the sky and the earth.
16. Incline, O Lord, Your ear and hear. Open, O Lord, Your eyes and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he sent to taunt the living God.
17. “Surely, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have annihilated the nations and their lands
18. and have put their gods in the fire, for they were no gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; thus they have been destroyed.
19. So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You, O Lord, are God alone.”
20. Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21. This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she ridicules you—virgin daughter of Zion.Behind you, she shakes her head—daughter of Jerusalem.
22. Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?And against whom have you raised a voiceand lifted your eyes upward?Against the Holy One of Israel.
23. By your messengersyou have taunted the Lord,and have said,‘With my many chariotsI have gone up the height of the mountains,to farthest reaches of Lebanon,and I will cut down its tallest cedars,its choicest junipers.I will enter its most remote canopies of night,its dense forest.
24. I have dug wellsand drunk foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’