In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl.
For Samaria’s plague is incurable; it has spread to Judah. It has reached the very gate of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.