18
Let not Ezekias deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
19
Where is the god of Emath, and Arphath? and where is the god of Eppharuaim? have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?
20
Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21
And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.
22
And Heliakim the of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the military scribe, and Joach the of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Ezekias, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabsaces.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.