10 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 and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in (B)Aramaic, for we [b]understand it; and do not speak with us in [c](C)Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 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?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:10 Lit without the Lord
  2. Isaiah 36:11 Lit hear
  3. Isaiah 36:11 I.e. Hebrew