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And he sent Eliakim (the steward of the house), and Shebna (the chancellor), with the elders of the priests, clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the Prophet, the son of Amoz.

And he said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and blasphemy. For the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.

‘If so be the LORD your God has heard the words of Rabshakeh—whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to rail on the living God, and to reproach him with words which the LORD your God has heard—then lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

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