³³ `Have the gods of the nations delivered at all each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

¹⁰ As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

¹¹ Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

¹² did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who `are' in Thelassar?

¹³ Where `is' the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'

¹⁷ `Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

¹⁸ and have put their gods into fire, for they `are' no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them.

¹⁴ Who among all the gods of these nations whom my fathers have devoted to destruction `is' he who hath been able to deliver his people out of my hand, that your God is able to deliver you out of my hand?

¹⁵ `And, now, let not Hezekiah lift you up, nor persuade you thus, nor give credence to him, for no god of any nation and kingdom is able to deliver his people from my hand, and from the hand of my fathers: also, surely your God doth not deliver you from my hand!'

¹⁶ And again have his servants spoken against Jehovah God, and against Hezekiah His servant,

¹⁷ and letters he hath written to give reproach to Jehovah, God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, `As the gods of the nations of the lands that have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah doth not deliver His people from my hand.'

¹⁹ and they speak against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land -- work of the hands of man.

¹⁸ lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

¹⁹ Where `are' the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?

²⁰ Who among all the gods of these lands `are' they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'