¹⁷ Incline your ear, O Lord, and listen; open your eyes, O Lord, and see. Hear all the words of Sennacherib whose purpose is to taunt the living God. ¹⁸ Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands. ¹⁹ They have cast their gods into the fire because they were not truly gods but the work of human hands, fashioned from wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.