²⁶ He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

⁸ "Judah, your brothers will praise you: Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's sons will bow down before you.

²² In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

¹³ Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁵ Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁶ His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

¹⁷ He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.

¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

⁴⁰ You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.