¹⁰ And have I now come up ^[a]without the Lord’s approval against this land to destroy it? ^(A)The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

¹¹ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in ^(B)Aramaic, for we ^[b]understand it; and do not speak to us in ^[c](C)Judean ^[d]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.” ¹² But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”