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"1Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; 2open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent3to reproach the livingGod.
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Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD .
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Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said, "O LORD , the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
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"Incline Your ear, O LORD , and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD , and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
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"Truly, O LORD , the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands
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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.