And Isaiah son of Amoz sendeth unto Hezekiah, saying, ‘Thus said JEHOVAH, God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:
this [is] the word that JEHOVAH spake concerning him: ‘Trampled on thee — laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head — Hath the daughter of Jerusalem?
Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes — Against the Holy One of Israel!
By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains — The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities,
And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn — before it hath risen up!
And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;
Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise — it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.