Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come even to Judah. it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.