1And it happened, when King Hezekiah heard, that he tore his garments and covered himself with sackcloth and came into the house of the LORD.2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.3And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and contempt, for children have come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth.4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his lord has sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; and you will lift up a prayer for the remnant that is found.5And the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.6And Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall say to your master: Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.7Behold, I am giving a spirit in him, and he will hear a report and return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land.8And Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had set out from Lachish.9And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, "Behold, he has come out to fight against you"; and he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,10Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction; and will you be delivered?12Have the gods of the nations rescued them—the nations whose lands my fathers destroyed—Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?13Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?