2 Kings 19:21–34

²¹This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion ^p

despises you and scorns you:

Daughter Jerusalem

shakes her head behind your back. ^qr

²²Who is it you mocked and blasphemed? ^s

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes in pride?

Against the Holy One of Israel! ^t

²³You have mocked the Lord ^uthrough ^vyour messengers. ^w

You have said:

With my many chariots ^x

I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars,

its choice cypress trees.

I came to its farthest outpost,

its densest forest.

²⁴I dug wells,

and I drank foreign waters.

I dried up all the streams of Egypt ^y

with the soles of my feet.

²⁵Have you not heard? ^z

I designed it long ago;

I planned it in days gone by.

I have now brought it to pass, ^a

and you have crushed fortified cities

into piles of rubble.

²⁶Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops, ^b

blasted by the east wind. ^c

²⁷But I know your sitting down, ^de

your going out and your coming in,

and your raging against Me.

²⁸Because your raging against Me

and your arrogance have reached My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose ^f

and My bit in your mouth;

I will make you go back

the way you came.

²⁹“This will be the sign ^gfor you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. ³⁰The surviving remnant ^hof the house of Israel will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. ⁱThe zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this. ^j

³²Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

He will not enter this city

or shoot an arrow there

or come before it with a shield

or build up an assault ramp against it. ^k

³³He will go back

on the road that he came

and he will not enter this city.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

³⁴I will defend this city and rescue it

for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.” ^l