1When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and came to the house of the LORD.2He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests. They were wearing sackcloth when they went to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.3And they said to him, "Thus Hezekiah has said: 'This day is a day of distress and rebuke and reproach, for sons have come to the breaking point and there is no strength for the one giving birth.'"4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom his lord the king of Assyria has sent to taunt the living gods, and will reprove the words that the LORD your God has heard, and you will bear prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.5The servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.6Isaiah said to them, "You shall say to your lord: 'The LORD says: Do not fear the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.'"7Look, I will send him a spirit, and he will hear a report and return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword there.8The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.9He heard that Tirhakah king of Cush was saying, "Look, he has come out to fight against you." And he sent messengers to Hezekiah saying,10You shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, "Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, 'Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'"11Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction—and you will be delivered.12Have the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed saved them—Gozen and Haran and Retzef and the sons of Eden that were in Telassar?13There is no king of Hamath, king of Arpad, king of the City of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah.