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Eliakim, Shebna, and the Elders (to Isaiah): This is Hezekiah’s message: “Today is filled with hours of sorrow, pain, anxiety, and reproof. Children are ready to be born, but there is no strength to deliver them. It may be that the Eternal One your God will disprove the words of Rabshakeh, whom Assyria’s king has sent to taunt the living God. So pray hard that your God, the Eternal One, will rebuke those words and save His few children who remain.”

King Hezekiah’s servants approached Isaiah,

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They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment(A) of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(B) the living God, and that he will rebuke(C) him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant(D) that still survives.”

When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,

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