21 Then 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: 22 This 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.

23  Whom 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.

24  †By 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.

25  I have digged, and drunk water;

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

26  ||Hast 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.

27  Therefore 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.

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

And thy rage against me.

29  Because 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.

30  And 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.

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

Shall again wtake root downward, and bear fruit upward:

32  For 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.

33  Therefore 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.

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

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

35  For bI will defend this city to save it

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

36 cThen the angel of the Lord went forth, and dsmote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and ewent and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.