These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!

The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,” says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies.

Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

“Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.

Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.

Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

For this is what the Lord says: “For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant,

Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will be totally destroyed.

They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.

On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations;

So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash.

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.