Isaiah's Message to Hezekiah
191When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth. Then he went into the House of the Lord. 2He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests, dressed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
3They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says. Today is a day of distress and rebuke and humiliation because children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them. 4Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the herald,[] whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to mock the living God, and he will rebuke him for the words which the Lord your God has heard, and you will lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant who are left.” 5When the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, 6Isaiah said to them, “Say this to your master: This is what the Lord says. Do not be afraid of these words which you heard, with which the lackeys[] of the king of Assyria blasphemed me. 7See, I am going to put him into such a frame of mind that when he hears a certain report, he will return to his country, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”