In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!
“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like the ostriches.
For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.