Isaiah 37:21–35

²¹Then ^aIsaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: ²²this is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him;

The virgin, ^kthe daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;

The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

²³Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?

And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,

And lifted up thine eyes on high?

Even against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said,

By the multitude of my chariots am I come up

To the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon;

And I will cut down the tall ^mcedars thereof, and the choice ^mfir trees thereof:

And I will enter into the height of his border, and ⁿthe forest of his Carmel.

²⁵I have digged, and drunk water;

And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all ^othe rivers of the ^obesieged places.

²⁶Hast thou not heard long ago, how ^pI have done it;

And of ancient times, that ^pI have formed it?

Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste

^qDefenced cities into ruinous heaps.

²⁷Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,

^rThey were dismayed and confounded:

They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb,

As the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

²⁸But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,

And thy rage against me.

²⁹Because thy rage against me, and thy ^stumult, is come up into mine ears,

Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and ^tmy bridle in thy lips,

And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

³⁰And this shall be a sign unto thee,

Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself;

And the second year that which springeth of the same:

And ^uin the third year sow ye, and reap,

And plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

³¹And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah

Shall again ^wtake root downward, and bear fruit upward.

³²For out of Jerusalem shall go forth ^xa remnant,

And they that escape out of mount Zion:

The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

³³Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria,

^yHe shall not come into this city,

^zNor shoot an arrow there,

Nor come before it with shields,

Nor ^acast a bank against it.

³⁴By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,

And shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

³⁵For ^bI will defend this city to save it

For mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.