³ And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, ^(A)with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them ^(B)lay in sackcloth and ashes.

³ Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by ^(A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

³⁰ And ^(A)cast ^(B)the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place ^(C)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and ^(A)cast him into the outer darkness. In that place ^(B)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

^42 (A)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place ^(B)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah's Help

37 ^(A)As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. ² And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet ^(B)Isaiah the son of Amoz. ³ They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a ^(C)day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; ^(D)children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.