2 Kings 19:14-28

14And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.

15And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said, Jehovah, 1God of Israel, who sittest [between] the cherubim, thou, the Same, thou alone art the 2God of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

16Incline thine ear, Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living 3God.

17Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

18and have cast their 4gods into the fire; for they were no 5gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.

19And now, Jehovah our 6God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, Jehovah, art 7God, thou only.

20And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah the 8God of Israel: That which thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

21This is the word that Jehovah has spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.

22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy one of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots have I come up To the height of the mountain, to the recesses of Lebanon, And I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; And I will enter into its furthest lodging-place, [into] the forest of its fruitful field.

24I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

25Hast thou not heard long ago that I have done it? And that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities [into] ruinous heaps.

26And their inhabitants were powerless, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were [as] the growing grass, and [as] the green herb, [As] the grass on the housetops, and grain blighted before it be grown up.

27But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me.

28Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.