²⁹And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

³⁰And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

³¹For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and that which shall be saved out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

³²Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

³³By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.

³⁴And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for David, my servant’s sake.

³⁵And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.

³⁶And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.

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