Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched against all the fortified towns of Judah and seized them.
Oy to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the club in their hand is My indignation!
“Go, and say to Hezekiah, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add 15 years to your life.
Concerning this let me lament and howl. Let me walk barefoot and naked. I will make a howl like jackals and a mourning like ostriches.
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come up to Judah. It has reached the gate of my people— even up to Jerusalem!