Hezekiah’s Prayer in the Temple

¹⁴ Then 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. ¹⁵ Hezekiah 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. ¹⁸ Truly, Lord, the ^(G)kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands, ¹⁹ and 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. ²⁰ But 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.”