Yeshayahu 37:1-14 ישעיהו ל״ז:א׳-י״ד

And it came to pass, when king Ḥizqiyyahu heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

And he sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Shevna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Yesha῾yahu the prophet the son of Amoż.

And they said to him, Thus says Ḥizqiyyahu, This day is a day of trouble, and of reviling, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Ravshaqe, whom the king of Ashshur his master has sent to taunt the living God, and to revile with words as the Lord thy God has heard: wherefore send up a prayer for the remnant that is left.

So the servants of king Ḥizqiyyahu came to Yesha῾yahu.

And Yesha῾yahu said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Ashshur have blasphemed me.

Behold, I will send another spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

So Ravshaqe returned, and found the king of Ashshur warring against Livna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lakhish.

And he heard say concerning Tirhaqa king of Kush, He is come out to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Ḥizqiyyahu, saying,

Thus shall you speak to Ḥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be given into the hand of the king of Ashshur.

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

Have their gods delivered those nations which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Ḥaran, and Reżef, and the children of ῾Eden who were in Telassar?

Where is the king of Ḥamat, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvayim, Hena, and ῾Ivva?

And Ḥizqiyyahu took the letters from the hands of the messengers, and read them: and Ḥizqiyyahu went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.