¹⁰ The inhabitants of the earth^(A) will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,^(B) because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

⁴ therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys,^(A) to the desolate ruins^(B) and the deserted^(C) towns that have been plundered and ridiculed^(D) by the rest of the nations around you^(E)—

¹² But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?^(A)”

¹³ Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew,^(B) “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!^{(C) 14} This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive^(D) you. He cannot deliver you! ¹⁵ Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver^(E) us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’^(F)

¹⁶ “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree^(G) and drink water from your own cistern,^{(H) 17} until I come and take you to a land like your own^(I)—a land of grain and new wine,^(J) a land of bread and vineyards.

¹⁸ “Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? ¹⁹ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad?^(K) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?^(L) Have they rescued Samaria^(M) from my hand? ²⁰ Who of all the gods^(N) of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”^(O)