2 Kings 19:20–34

²⁰Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. ²¹This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:

‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion

despises you and mocks you;

the Daughter of Jerusalem

shakes her head behind you.

²²Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes in pride?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

²³Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,

and you have said:

“With my many chariots

I have ascended

to the heights of the mountains,

to the remote peaks of Lebanon.

I have cut down its tallest cedars,

the finest of its cypresses.^c

I have reached its farthest outposts,

the densest of its forests.

²⁴I have dug wells

and drunk foreign waters.

With the soles of my feet

I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

²⁵Have you not heard?

Long ago I ordained it;

in days of old I planned it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

that you should crush fortified cities

into piles of rubble.

²⁶Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power,

are dismayed and ashamed.

They are like plants in the field,

tender green shoots,

grass on the rooftops,

scorched before it is grown.

²⁷But I know your sitting down,

your going out and coming in,

and your raging against Me.

²⁸Because your rage and arrogance against Me

have reached My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose

and My bit in your mouth;

I will send you back

the way you came.’

²⁹And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah:

This year you will eat

what grows on its own,

and in the second year

what springs from the same.

But in the third year you will sow and reap;

you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

³⁰And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah

will again take root below

and bear fruit above.

³¹For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem,

and survivors from Mount Zion.

The zeal of the LORD of Hosts^d

will accomplish this.

³²So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:

‘He will not enter this

city or shoot an arrow

into it. He will not come before it with a shield

or build up a siege ramp against it.

³³He will go back the way he came,

and he will not enter this city,

declares the LORD.

³⁴I will defend this city

and save it

for My own sake

and for the sake of My servant David.’”