Isaiah 37:6-8

International Standard Version

Isaiah Responds to Hezekiah

⁶ “Here is what to tell your master,” Isaiah told them. “This is what the Lord says: ‘Don’t be afraid of the words you’ve heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have insulted me. ⁷ Watch this! I’m going to place an attitude^[a] within him,^[b] so that when he hears a certain report, he’ll return to his own country. Then I’ll have him cut down by the sword in his own land.”^[c]

Sennacherib Retreats

⁸ So the field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, since he had heard that the king of Assyria^[d] had left Lachish.