Isaiah 37:1-3

Legacy Standard Bible

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Help

37 Now it happened that ^(A)when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh. ² Then he sent ^(B)Eliakim, who was over the household with ^(C)Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to ^(D)Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a ^(E)day of distress, reproof, and rejection; for ^(F)children have come to the point of breaking forth, but there is no strength to give birth.