2 Kings 19:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

19 And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth, and came into the House of the LORD,

² and sent Eliakim, who was the steward of the house, and Shebna the chancellor, and the elders of the priests clothed in sackcloth to Isaiah, the Prophet, the son of Amoz.

³ And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and blasphemy. For the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.