Isaiah 37:14-25

New American Standard Bible

Hezekiah’s Prayer in the Temple

¹⁴Then Hezekiah took the ^[a]letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and ^[b]spread it out before the Lord. ¹⁵Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, ¹⁶“Lord of armies, God of Israel, ^(A)who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the ^(B)God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. ^(C)You made heaven and earth. ¹⁷^(D)Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see; and ^(E)listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to ^(F)taunt the living God. ¹⁸Truly, Lord, the ^(G)kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands, ¹⁹and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but only the ^(H)work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have ^(I)destroyed them. ²⁰But now Lord, our God, ^(J)save us from his hand, so that ^(K)all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, ^[c]Lord, are God.”

God Answers through Isaiah

²¹Then ^(L)Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, ²²this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

“She has shown contempt for you and derided you,
The ^(M)virgin ^(N)daughter of Zion;
The daughter of Jerusalem has ^(O)shaken her head behind you!
²³Whom have you ^(P)taunted and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And ^[d]haughtily ^(Q)raised your eyes?
Against the ^(R)Holy One of Israel!
²⁴Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of ^(S)Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall ^(T)cedars and its choice junipers.
And I will come to its ^[e]highest peak, its thickest ^(U)forest.
²⁵I dug wells and drank waters,
And ^(V)with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the canals of ^[f]Egypt.’