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And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: "O LORD, the God of Israel,
1enthroned above the cherubim,
2you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
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3Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear;
4open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent
5to mock the living God.
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Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods,
6but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
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So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand,
7that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
8you, O LORD, are God alone."
Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib's Fall
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria
9I have heard.
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This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--
10the virgin daughter of Zion; she
11wags her head behind you-- the daughter of Jerusalem.
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"Whom have you
12mocked and
13reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against
14the Holy One of Israel!
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15By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said,
16'With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of
17Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most
18fruitful forest.
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I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams
19of Egypt.'
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"Have you not heard that
20I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what
21now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,