The roads to Zion are sad. No one comes to the holy meeting. All her doorways are desolate. Her priests are sighing out of sorrow. Her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

He hath broken

Hezekiah sent a message to Sennacherib at Lachish: I have done wrong. Stop your attack and I will pay whatever you demand. The emperor's answer was that Hezekiah should send him ten tons of silver and one ton of gold.

He hath despised

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

It was Hezekiah's fourteenth year as king. King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

He regardeth

The king of Assyria says: By the strength of my hand I have done it. By my wisdom and understanding I have done it! I am prudent! Also I have removed the boundaries of the nations. I have robbed their treasuries. I have brought down people like a mighty man!

The Philistine added: I challenge the Israelite battle line today. Send out a man so we can fight each other.

You say you have counsel and [military] strength for war. These are only words. To whom are you looking for support that you rebel against me?

He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.

There was a judge in a city that did not fear God and had no respect for man.