Isaiah 37:22-24

Contemporary English Version

Isaiah Gives the Lord's Answer to Hezekiah

(2 Kings 19.20-34)

^21-22I went to Hezekiah and told him that the Lord God of Israel had said:

Hezekiah, you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria.^[a] Now this is what I say to that king:

The people of Jerusalem
hate and make fun of you;
they laugh behind your back.

²³Sennacherib, you cursed,
shouted and sneered at me,
    the holy One of Israel.
²⁴You let your officials
    insult me, the Lord.
And here is what you
    have said about yourself,
“I led my chariots
to the highest heights
    of Lebanon's mountains.
I went deep into its forest,
cutting down the best cedar
    and cypress trees.