2 Kings 19:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

19 When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.^(A)

² And he sent Eliakim, who was over his household, Shebna the scribe, and the older priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

³ They said to him, Hezekiah says: This is a day of [extreme danger and] distress, of rebuke and chastisement, and blasphemous and insolent insult; for children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.