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12 And shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my ancestors destroyed? Either, Goza or Charran or Raphath which are in the country of Theemath?
13 Where are the kings of Emath? And where those of Arphath? And where those of the city Eppharuim, of Anagougana?
14 When Ezekias received the letter from the messengers and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord; and having spread it before the Lord,
15 Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,
16 "O Lord of Hosts the God of Israel, who art enthroned on the cherubim! Thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the World. Thou hast made the heaven and the earth.
17 Incline, Lord, thine ear! Lord, hearken! Open, O Lord, thine eyes! Lord, look down and behold the words of Sennacherim which he hath sent to reproach the Living God.
18 In truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste this whole inhabited land and the country of those [here mentioned]
19 and have cast their idols into the fire; for they were not gods; but works of mens" hands, stocks and stones;
20 therefore they destroyed them. But now, Lord, our God, save us out of their hands that every kingdom of the earth may know, that thou alone art God."
21 Thereupon Esaias son of Amos was sent to Ezekias and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, " I have heard the prayer which thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
22 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him, "The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee and mocked thee; at thee the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head;
23 whom hast thou reproached and provoked? Or against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, [without lifting up thine eye to the Holy One of Israel?]