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"Go to Hezekiah and tell him: ‘This is what the Lord , the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. So I will add fifteen years to your life.

From long ago no one has ever heard of a God like you. No one has ever seen a God besides you, who helps the people who trust you.

I saw the glory of the God of Israel there, as I had seen on the plain.

These were the living creatures I had seen under the God of Israel by the Kebar River. I knew they were called cherubim.

The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the captives who had been taken from Judah to Babylonia. This happened in a vision given by the Spirit of God, and then the vision I had seen ended.

This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for the foolish prophets who follow their own ideas and have not seen a vision from me!

I said to them, "Each one of you must throw away the hateful idols you have seen and liked. Don't make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God."

"So this is what the Lord God says: ‘You have shown how sinful you are by turning against the Lord . Your sins are seen in all the things you do. Because of this proof against you, you will be taken captive by the enemy.