⁴ Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God,^(A) and will rebuke him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”^(B)

² the prophet Jeremiah and said, “May our petition come before you;^(A) pray to the Lord your God on our behalf,^(B) on behalf of this entire remnant (for few of us remain out of the many,^(C) as you can see with your own eyes),