Isaiah 37:14-20

The Voice

¹⁴When Hezekiah got the written message, he read it. Then he took it to the temple, spread it out before the Eternal One, ¹⁵and began to pray.

Hezekiah: ¹⁶Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, who sits enthroned above the winged guardians—You alone are God. Only You are supreme over all the nations and kingdoms of the earth. And only You have made the heavens above, the earth below, and everything in them. ¹⁷Please, please listen, Eternal One. Attend to us here and now; look and listen. Hear all that Sennacherib said, and all that he wrote, to ridicule You, the living God. ¹⁸Eternal One, he’s right about how the Assyrian kings have destroyed other nations and taken over their lands. ¹⁹And sure, they ruined the gods of those nations, smashed and burned them. But those were not real gods, only the product of human hands, shaped of stone and wood. That is why they could be destroyed. ²⁰I implore You, Eternal One our God, help us. Save us from the onslaught of these Assyrians. Make it clear to the whole world that You alone are the Eternal One, that You alone are God.