³ And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

^3 (A)Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

³⁰ And cast the unprofitable servant ^(A)into the outer darkness. ^(B)There will be weeping and ^(C)gnashing of teeth.’

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, ^[a]take him away, and cast him ^(A)into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

^42 (A)and will cast them into the furnace of fire. ^(B)There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Isaiah Assures Deliverance^(A)

37 And ^(B)so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. ² Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of ^(C)trouble and rebuke and ^[a]blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.