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

3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of ^atrouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.  ‡