But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.

Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

Don't forget the angry shouts of your enemies, the continuous noise made by your foes.

Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

This is the message which he told them to give to Isaiah: "Today is a day of suffering; we are being punished and are in disgrace. We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it.

The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the LORD your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."

Now, LORD, hear us and look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.

it is sung by children and babies. You are safe and secure from all your enemies; you stop anyone who opposes you.