In the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyr-ians, went up to all the strengthened cities of Judah, and took them.
Woe to Assur, he is the rod and staff of my strong vengeance; mine indignation is in the hand of them.
Go thou, and say to Hezekiah, The Lord God of David, thy father, saith these things, I have heard thy prayer, and I saw thy tears. Lo! I shall add on thy days fifteen years;
On this thing I shall wail and yell, I shall go spoiled and naked; I shall make wailing as of dragons, and mourning as of ostriches.
For wound thereof is despaired; for it came till to Judah, it touched the gate of my people, till to Jerusalem.