And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court,

Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham Your friend forever?

If evil comes upon us; sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine; we will stand before this house and before Your face (for Your name is in this house), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.

Behold, they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.

Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, were standing before Jehovah.

and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

It may be that Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore, lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

And Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah, saying,

Extend Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open Your eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt the Living God.

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have compassion on Your people, O Jehovah, and do not give Your possession to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

The Lord Jehovah showed me this: And, behold, He formed locusts at the beginning of the after growth; indeed, the after growth after the mowings of the king.

Jehovah was moved to compassion concerning this: It shall not be, says Jehovah.

Then I said, Lord Jehovah, I beg You, stop. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.

whatever prayer or supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own plague and his own grief, and has spread out his hands to this house:

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

When I kept silent, my bones wore out through my roaring all day long.

For by day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, from the summits of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you murmur within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him for the deliverance coming from the presence of my God.

For my heart was grieved and I was pierced to the core.

I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

When my spirit was faint within me, then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

I cried out unto You, O Jehovah: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share in its joy.

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Then Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens;

And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.