Hezekiah’s Prayer

¹⁴ And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he read^[a] it. Then^[b] he went up to the temple^[c] of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the presence^[d] of Yahweh. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, ¹⁶ “Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel who is enthroned on^[e] the cherubim, you are the one, God by yourself, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you are the one who made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁷ Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God! ¹⁸ Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands^[f] and their land, ¹⁹ to set^[g] their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them. ²⁰ So^[h] now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so that^[i] all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, you alone!”