Isaiah 37:22–36

22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

“She has despised you and mocked you,

The avirgin bdaughter of Zion;

She has cshaken her head behind you,

The daughter of Jerusalem!

23 “Whom have you areproached and blasphemed?

And against whom have you raised your voice

And 1haughtily blifted up your eyes?

Against the cHoly One of Israel!

24 “Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of aLebanon;

And I cut down its tall bcedars and its choice cypresses.

And I will go to its 1highest peak, its thickest cforest.

25 ‘I dug wells and drank waters,

And awith the sole of my feet I dried up

All the rivers of 1Egypt.’

26 “aHave you not heard?

Long ago I did it,

From ancient times I bplanned it.

Now cI have brought it to pass,

That dyou should turn fortified cities into eruinous heaps.

27 “Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

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

As bgrass on the housetops 1is scorched before it is grown up.

28 “But I aknow your sitting down

And your going out and your coming in

And your raging against Me.

29 “Because of your raging against Me

And because your 1aarrogance has come up to My ears,

Therefore I will put My bhook in your nose

And My cbridle in your lips,

And I will turn you back dby the way which you came.

30 “Then this shall be the sign for you: 1you will eat this year what agrows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

31 “The asurviving bremnant of the house of Judah will again ctake root downward and bear fruit upward.

32 “For out of Jerusalem will go forth a aremnant and out of Mount Zion 1survivors. The bzeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” ’

33 “Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a asiege ramp against it.

34 ‘aBy the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ declares the Lord.

35 ‘For I will adefend this city to save it bfor My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”

Assyrians Destroyed

36 Then the aangel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when 1men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were 2dead.