30 And listen to your servant’s request for favor and to the request by your people Israel that they pray toward this place, and may you hear from your dwelling place in the heavens;+ yes, may you hear and forgive.+

14 Hez·e·kiʹah took the letters out of the hand of the messengers and read them. Hez·e·kiʹah then went up to the house of Jehovah and spread them* out before Jehovah.+ 15 And Hez·e·kiʹah began to pray to Jehovah+ and say: 16 “O Jehovah of armies,+ the God of Israel, sitting enthroned above* the cherubs, you alone are the true God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. 17 Incline your ear, O Jehovah, and hear!+ Open your eyes, O Jehovah, and see!+ Hear all the words that Sen·nachʹer·ib has sent to taunt the living God.+ 18 It is a fact, O Jehovah, that the kings of As·syrʹi·a have devastated all the lands,+ as well as their own land. 19 And they have thrown their gods into the fire,+ because they were not gods but the work of human hands,+ wood and stone. That is why they could destroy them. 20 But now, O Jehovah our God, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are God, O Jehovah.”+