In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
“Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
Because of this I will lament and wail, I will go about barefoot and naked; I will howl like the jackals and moan like owlets.
For her wound is mortal, for it has come to Judah; it has extended to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.