And a man of God came and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says Jehovah: Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is God of the hills, but He is not God of the valleys, therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck Egypt with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you nor entice you like this, and do not believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand.

He had also written letters to reproach Jehovah the God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.

And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the peoples of the lands; the work of men's hands.

These things you have done, and I have kept silent; you thought that I was like yourself; but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

i1 [A Song of Ascents.] i0 par I lift up my eyes from hill to hill. From where does my help come?

My help comes from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.