It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
The living God - is a most significant expression, taken in connection with the senseless deities that Rab-shakeh boasted were unable to resist his master's victorious arms.
Wherefore - i:e., on account of Rab-shakeh's blasphemy.
Lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left (Hebrew, found) - i:e., for the people of Judah, and especially the inhabitants of Jerusalem, placed in imminent jeopardy, and who now form but a small remnant of the chosen people in the land that was given them by "covenant," to which, though they had unhappily broken it, the king of Judah and his subjects faithfully adhere.