But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall bow down before this altar?

Have I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.

Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will deliver, to rescue us; this city shall not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria!

Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

that has said, We shall be strong with our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

O Jehovah, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.

When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they may be destroyed forever.

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

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

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.

Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,

Have any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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?

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

Truly, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands; wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.

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.

Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

they have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;

Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

For I know that Jehovah is great, and our Lord is above all gods.

Whatever Jehovah pleases, He does in the heavens and in earth, in the seas and in all deep places.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

they have ears, but they do not hear; nor is there any breath in their mouths.

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the ax, the work of the hands of the craftsman.

They are crafted into hammered work like a palm tree, and they cannot speak. They must be lifted up and carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they are not able to do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the eternal King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure His indignation.

He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and prostrate yourselves before the image which I have made. But if you do not prostrate yourselves, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?

Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To a mute stone, Rise up, it shall teach. Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all in it.

But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.