^15 (A)and prayed, “O Lord, the God of Israel, seated on your throne above the winged creatures, you alone are God, ruling all the kingdoms of the world. You created the earth and the sky. ¹⁶ Now, Lord, look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God. ¹⁷ We all know, Lord, that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate, ¹⁸ and burned up their gods—which were no gods at all, only images of wood and stone made by human hands. ¹⁹ Now, Lord our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that only you, O Lord, are God.”

Isaiah's Message to the King^(B)

²⁰ Then Isaiah sent a message telling King Hezekiah that in answer to the king's prayer

³⁵ That night an angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!