¹⁶ Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.

¹⁷ Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.

¹⁸ And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not Rods, but the works of men's hands of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.