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Hezekiah received 1the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.
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And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: "O LORD, the God of Israel, 2enthroned above the cherubim, 3you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
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4Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; 5open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent 6to mock the living God.
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Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, 7but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
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So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, 8that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that 9you, O LORD, are God alone."