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16 (A)Incline Your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; (B)open Your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, who sent them (C)to [a]reproach the living God. 17 Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18 and have put their gods into the fire, (D)for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:16 Or defy, cf. 1 Sam 17:26

16 Give ear,(A) Lord, and hear;(B) open your eyes,(C) Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.

17 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods(D) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(E)

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