Isaiah 36:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ Moreover, do you believe that I have come to attack this land and destroy it without the consent of the Lord? The Lord himself said to me, ‘Go forth against this land and destroy it.’ ”

¹¹ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief officer, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,^[a] for we understand it. Do not speak to us in Judean within earshot of the people on the ramparts.” ¹² The chief officer replied, “Has my master sent me here to speak these words only to your master and to you, and not also to the people sitting on the wall who along with you will be doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”