Yeshayahu 36:1-10 ישעיהו ל״ו:א׳-י׳

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Ḥizqiyyahu, that Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur came up against all the fortified cities of Yehuda, and took them.

And the king of Ashshur sent Ravshaqe from Lakhish to Yerushalayim to king Ḥizqiyyahu with a great army. And he stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool in the highway of the washer’s field.

Then Elyaqim, Ḥilqiyyahu’s son, who was over the house, came out to him, and Shevna the scribe, and Yo᾽aĥ Asaf’s son, the recorder.

And Ravshaqe said to them, Say now to Ḥizqiyyahu, Thus says the great king, the king of Ashshur, What confidence is this in which thou trustest?

I said, A mere word with the lips is thy counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, in Miżrayim; on which if a man lean, it will go into his arm, and pierce it: so is Par῾o king of Miżrayim to all that trust in him.

But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Ḥizqiyyahu has taken away, and said to Yehuda and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar?

Now therefore make a wager, I pray thee, with my master the king of Ashshur, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one officer of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust in Miżrayim for chariots and for horsemen?

And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? it is the Lord who said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.