Hezekiah Prays to the Lord

¹⁴ ·When [After] Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of the Lord. He spread the letter out before the Lord ¹⁵ and prayed ·to [before] the Lord: “Lord, God of Israel, whose throne is ·between [above] the ·gold creatures with wings [^Lcherubim; Ex. 37:7], ·only you [you alone] are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁶ ·Hear [^LExtend/Incline your ear], Lord, and listen. Open your eyes, Lord, and see. Listen to the words Sennacherib has said to ·insult [defy; ridicule; mock] the living God. ¹⁷ It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have ·destroyed [devastated; laid waste to] these ·countries [nations] and their lands. ¹⁸ They have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire, ·but [for] they were not gods at all but only wood and rock statues that people made. So the kings have destroyed them. ¹⁹ Now, Lord our God, ·save [rescue; ^Tdeliver] us from the king’s ·power [^Lhand] so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, ·are the only [alone are] God.”