Hezekiah welcomed<n id="1" /> them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> has poured out on youp> <p class="poetry">a strong urge to sleep deeply.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He has shut your eyes (the prophets),p> <p class="poetry">and covered your heads (the seers).p>

Were the nations whom my predecessors<n id="1" /> destroyed &#8211; the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar &#8211; rescued by their gods?<n id="2" />

Then I will summon<n id="1" /> as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">You must recognize the authority of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He is the one you must respect;p> <p class="poetry">he is the one you must fear.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then the <sc>Lordsc> provoked<n id="1" /> their adversaries to attack them,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he stirred up<n id="3" /> their enemies &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">You saw the many breaksp> <p class="poetry">in the walls of the city of David;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you stored up water in the lower pool.p>

<p class="poetry">Who is the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> trying to teach?p> <p class="poetry">To whom is he explaining a message?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Those just weaned from milk!p> <p class="poetry">Those just taken from their mother&#8217;s breast!<n id="3" />p>

It is true, <sc>Lordsc>, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations<n id="1" /> and their lands.

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> men will throwp> <p class="poetry">their silver and gold idols,p> <p class="poetry">which they made for themselves to worship,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">into the caves where rodents and bats live,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> the sovereign master<n id="2" /> will wash the excrement<n id="3" /> from Zion&#8217;s women,p> <p class="poetry">he will rinse the bloodstains from Jerusalem&#8217;s midst,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">as he comes to judgep> <p class="poetry">and to bring devastation.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now I will inform youp> <p class="poetry">what I am about to do to my vineyard:p> <p class="poetry">I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the year of King Uzziah&#8217;s death,<n id="1" /> I saw the sovereign master<n id="2" /> seated on a high, elevated throne. The hem of his robe filled the temple.

I heard the voice of the sovereign master say, &#8220;Whom will I send? Who will go on our behalf?&#8221;<n id="1" /> I answered, &#8220;Here I am, send me!&#8221;

At that time<n id="1" /> the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River,<n id="2" /> the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair;<n id="3" /> it will also shave off the beard.

for before the child knows how to cry out, &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria<n id="1" /> will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;These people<n id="1" /> have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah<n id="2" /> and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">For their oppressive yokep> <p class="poetry">and the club that strikes their shoulders,p> <p class="poetry">the cudgel the oppressor uses on them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have shattered, as in the day of Midian&#8217;s defeat.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Ephraim&#8217;s jealousy will end,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and Judah&#8217;s hostility<n id="2" /> will be eliminated.p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah,p> <p class="poetry">and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.p>

<p class="poetry">Babylon, the most admired<n id="1" /> of kingdoms,p> <p class="poetry">the Chaldeans&#8217; source of honor and pride,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will be destroyed by Godp> <p class="poetry">just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.<n id="3" />p>