You will answer me, God; I know you always will. Hear my words like you always do as you listen to my every prayer.
As long as I live I’ll keep praying to him, for he stoops down to listen to my heart’s cry.
Whenever trouble strikes, I will keep crying out to you, for I know your help is on the way.
Please bend down and listen to my sobbing, for my life is riddled with troubles and death is just around the corner!
But as for me, I will call upon the Lord to save me, and I know he will!
Please lean down to hear my prayer. Yahweh, open your eyes and see me here calling out to you. Listen carefully to every blasphemous word Sennacherib has sent to ridicule and insult you, the living God.
So now, our loving God, Yahweh, save us from the Assyrians so that the whole world will know that you alone are Yahweh, Lord God Almighty.”
Tremble in awe before the Lord, and do not sin against him. Be still upon your bed and search your heart before him. Pause in his presence