I have dug wells
Sennacherib boasts of his own reach and power, as though no height or land can resist him.
It gives voice to the empire’s self-exalting claim.
20Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? 23Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, 24I have dug wells 25Have you not heard? 26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, 27But I know your sitting down, 28Because your rage and arrogance against Me 29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: 30And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah 31For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, 32So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: 33He will go back the way he came, 34I will defend this city