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10 “And have I now come up without the LORD to this land, to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it’.”

11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language. For we understand it. And do not talk with us in the Jews’ tongue in front of the people who are on the wall.”

12 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master, and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

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