Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God — Hezekiah's petition appeals to God to observe ('Incline your ear... open your eyes') Sennacherib's blasphemy. The phrase 'to mock the living God' (חֵרֵף אֶת־אֱלֹהִים חַיִּים, *cheref et-Elohim chayim*) identifies the theological violation: Sennacherib's insults constitute mockery of the living God. The prayer asks divine awareness and attention to the insult—the implicit petition being that the LORD will respond to the blasphemy.

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