2 Kings 18:26-28

New English Translation

²⁶ Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic,^[a] for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect^[b] in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” ²⁷ But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.^[c] His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”^[d]

²⁸ The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect,^[e] “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.