Isaiah 37:4

Lift up thy prayer for the remnant... — Isaiah’s characteristic words (Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 10:21) had impressed itself on the king’s mind. Now that town after town of Judah had fallen into Sennacherib’s hands (forty-six, according to his inscriptions — Records of the Past, i. 38), those who were gathered within the walls of Jerusalem were as a mere remnant of the people.