18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that [were] on the wall, to make them afraid and to trouble them, that they might take the city.

19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.

20 And for this [cause] Hezekiah, the king, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.