And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger! And the staff in their hand is My fury.
Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, 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.
Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.
For her wounds are not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.