And he said: Well: My master hath sent me to thee, saying: Just now there are come to me from mount Ephraim, two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.
And Isaias the prophet came to king Ezechias, and said to him: What said these men? Or from whence came they to thee? And Ezechias said to him: From a far country they came to me out of Babylon.
And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar of incense.