Hezekiah’s Prayer

¹⁴ Then ^(A)Hezekiah took the ^[a]letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of Yahweh and ^[b]spread it out before Yahweh. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, ^(B)who is ^[c]enthroned above the cherubim, ^(C)You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ^16 (D)Incline Your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; ^(E)open Your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, who sent them ^(F)to ^[d]reproach the living God. ¹⁷ Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands ¹⁸ and have put their gods into the fire, ^(G)for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. ¹⁹ But now, O Yahweh our God, I pray, save us from his hand ^(H)that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O ^(I)Yahweh, are God.”