Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!