AND it came to pass, when King Yechizqiyahu heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahuah.
And he sent Elyaqiym, which was over the household, and Shevnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to El-Yesha`yahu the prophet the son of Amots.
And they said unto him, Thus says Yechizqiyahu, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
It may be Yahuah Elohayka will hear את all the words of Rav-Shaqeh, whom the king of Ashshur his adoniy has sent to reproach the living Elohiym; and will reprove the words which Yahuah Elohayka has heard: wherefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
So the servants of King Yechizqiyahu came to Yesha`yahu.
And Yesha`yahu said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your adoniy, Thus says Yahuah, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Ashshur have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
So Rav-Shaqeh returned, and found the king of Ashshur warring against Livnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lakiysh.
And when he heard say of Tirhaqah king of Kush, Behold, he is come out to fight against you: he sent messengers again unto Yechizqiyahu, saying,
Thus shall ye speak to Yechizqiyahu king of Yahudah, saying, Let not your Elohiym in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Yerushalayim shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Ashshur.
Behold, you have heard את what the kings of Ashshur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
Have the elohai of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Retseph, and the children of Eden which were in Tela'ssar?
Where is the king of Chamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Cepharvayim, of Hena, and Avva?
And Yechizqiyahu received the cepher of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Yechizqiyahu went up into the house of Yahuah, and spread it before Yahuah.
And Yechizqiyahu prayed before Yahuah, and said, O Yahuah Elohai of Yashar'el, which dwells between the Keruviym, you are the Elohiym, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made the heavens and the earth.
Yahuah, bow down your ear, and hear: open, Yahuah, your eyes, and see: and hear את the words of Cancheriyv, which has sent him to reproach the living Elohiym.
Of a truth, Yahuah, the kings of Ashshur have destroyed the nations and their lands,
And have cast their elohiym into the fire: for they were no elohiym, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Now therefore, O Yahuah Elohaynu, I beseech you, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahuah Elohiym, even you only.
Then Yesha`yahu the son of Amots sent to Yechizqiyahu, saying, Thus says Yahuah Elohai of Yashar'el, That which you have prayed to me against Cancheriyv king of Ashshur I have heard.
This is the word that Yahuah has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Tsiyon has despised you, and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head at you.
Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Yashar'el.
By your messengers you have reproached Adonai, and have 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 Karmel.
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
Have you 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 you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it be grown up.
But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.
Because your rage against me and your tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
And this shall be a sign unto you, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Yahudah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
For out of Yerushalayim shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of Mount Tsiyon: the zeal of Yahuah Tseva'oth shall do this.
Therefore thus says Yahuah concerning the king of Ashshur, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says Yahuah.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Yahuah went out, and smote in the camp of the Ashshuriym a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
So Cancheriyv king of Ashshur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Niyneveh.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nicrok his elohiym, that Adrammelek and Shar'etser his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Ecar-Chaddon his son reigned in his stead.