And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to [a]the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.

If so be the Lord thy God hath heard all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to reproach him with words which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou up thy prayer for the [b]remnant that are left.

¶ So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:3 The dangers are so great, that we can neither avenge this blasphemy, nor help ourselves no more than a woman in her travail.
  2. 2 Kings 19:4 Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.

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