<p class="poetry">Their land is full of gold and silver;p> <p class="poetry">there is no end to their wealth.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Their land is full of horses;p> <p class="poetry">there is no end to their chariots.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their land is full of worthless idols;p> <p class="poetry">they worship<n id="1" /> the product of their own hands,p> <p class="poetry">what their own fingers have fashioned.p>

Look, I will take control of his mind;<n id="1" /> he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down<n id="2" /> with a sword in his own land.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Like a frightened gazelle<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or a sheep with no shepherd,p> <p class="poetry">each will turn toward home,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">each will run to his homeland.p>

Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will rescue us.&#8221; Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">that sends messengers by sea,p> <p class="poetry">who glide over the water&#8217;s surface in boats made of papyrus.p> <p class="poetry">Go, you swift messengers,p> <p class="poetry">to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to a people that are feared far and wide,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to a nation strong and victorious,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">whose land rivers divide.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">At that timep> <p class="poetry">tribute will be brought to the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,p> <p class="poetry">a people that are feared far and wide,p> <p class="poetry">a nation strong and victorious,p> <p class="poetry">whose land rivers divide.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The tribute<n id="2" /> will be brought to the place where the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion.<n id="3" />p>