Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? (19:11)

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar? (19:12)

Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? (19:13)

And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord (19:14)

And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth (19:15)

Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God (19:16)

Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, (19:17)

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them (19:18)

Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the Lord God, [even] thou only (19:19)

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, [That] which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard (19:20)

This [is] the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee (19:21)

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Israel (19:22)

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, 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 tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel (19:23)

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places (19:24)

Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps (19:25)

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the house tops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up (19:26)

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me (19:27)

Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest (19:28)

And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof (19:29)

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward (19:30)

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord [of hosts] shall do this (19:31)

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it (19:32)

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord (19:33)

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake (19:34)

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses (19:35)

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh (19:36)

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead (19:37)

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