⁶ Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid^(A) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed^(B) me. ⁷ Listen! When he hears a certain report,^(C) I will make him want^(D) to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down^(E) with the sword.’”

⁸ When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,^(F) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.^(G)

⁹ Now Sennacherib^(H) received a report^(I) that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,^[a](J) was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: ¹⁰ “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive^(K) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’^{(L) 11} Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?^{(M) 12} Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors^(N) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,^(O) Rezeph and the people of Eden^(P) who were in Tel Assar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?^(Q) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,^(R) Hena and Ivvah?”^(S)