12:019:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king
of Arpad, and the
king
of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
12:019:014 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.
12:019:015 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.
12:019:016 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.
12:019:017 Of a truth, lord, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed the
nations
and their lands,
12:019:018 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.
12:019:019 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.
12:019:020 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.
12:019:021 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.
12:019:022 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.
12:019:023 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.
12:019:024 I have digged and drunk strange waters,
and with the sole of
my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
12:019:025 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.


