And he sentEliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, coveredwithsackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
And theysaidunto him, ThussaithHezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bringforth.
It may be the LORD thy God willhear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his masterhathsent to reproach the living God; and willreprove the wordswhich the LORD thy God hathheard: whereforelift up thy prayer for the remnantthat are left.
And Isaiahsaiduntothem, Thusshall ye say to yourmaster, Thussaith the LORD, Be not afraid of the wordswhichthouhastheard, withwhich the servants of the king of Assyriahaveblasphemed me.
Behold, I willsend a blastupon him, and he shallhear a rumour, and shallreturn to his own land; and I willcause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Thusshall ye speak to Hezekiahking of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whomthoutrustestdeceivethee, saying, Jerusalemshall not be deliveredinto the hand of the king of Assyria.
Have the gods of the nationsdeliveredthemwhich my fathershavedestroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Edenwhichwere in Thelasar?
And Hezekiahreceived the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiahwent up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
And Hezekiahprayedbefore the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, whichdwellestbetween the cherubims, thou art the God, eventhoualone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thouhastmadeheaven and earth.
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseechthee, savethou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may knowthatthou art the LORD God, eventhouonly.
ThenIsaiah the son of Amozsent to Hezekiah, saying, Thussaith the LORD God of Israel, Thatwhichthouhastprayed to me againstSennacheribking of Assyria I haveheard.
This is the wordthat the LORDhathspokenconcerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zionhathdespisedthee, and laughedthee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalemhathshaken her head at thee.
By thy messengersthouhastreproached the Lord, and hastsaid, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tallcedartreesthereof, and the choice fir treesthereof: and I willenterinto the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
Hastthou not heardlong ago how I havedone it, and of ancienttimesthat I haveformed it? now have I brought it to pass, thatthoushouldest be to lay wastefencedcitiesintoruinousheaps.
Thereforetheirinhabitantswere of smallpower, theyweredismayed and confounded; theywere as the grass of the field, and as the greenherb, as the grass on the housetops, and as cornblastedbefore it be grown up.
Because thy rageagainst me and thy tumult is come up intomineears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I willturntheeback by the way by whichthoucamest.
And thisshall be a signuntothee, Ye shall eat thisyearsuchthings as grow of themselves, and in the secondyearthatwhichspringeth of the same; and in the thirdyear sow ye, and reap, and plantvineyards, and eat the fruitsthereof.
Thereforethussaith the LORDconcerning the king of Assyria, He shall not comeintothiscity, nor shoot an arrowthere, nor comebefore it withshield, nor cast a bankagainst it.
And it came to passthatnight, that the angel of the LORDwent out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundredfourscore and fivethousand: and whentheyaroseearly in the morning, behold, theywere all deadcorpses.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, thatAdrammelech and Sharezer his sonssmote him with the sword: and theyescapedinto the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.