2 Kings 19:16-34

¹⁶Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt the living God. ¹⁷It is true, Lord; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ¹⁸and have hurled their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. ¹⁹But now, Lord our God, please, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God.”

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.’ ²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

‘She, the virgin daughter of Zion, has shown contempt for you and mocked you;

She, the daughter of Jerusalem, has shaken her head behind you!

22‘Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

And against whom have you raised your voice,

And haughtily raised your eyes?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

23‘Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I went up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers.

And I entered its farthest resting place, its thickest forest.

24“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,

And with the soles of my feet I dried up

All the streams of Egypt.”

25‘Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From ancient times I planned it.

Now I have brought it about,

That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

26‘Therefore their inhabitants were powerless,

They were shattered and put to shame.

They were like the vegetation of the field and the green grass,

Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.

27‘But I know your sitting down,

Your going out, your coming in,

And your raging against Me.

28‘Because of your raging against Me,

And because your complacency has come up to My ears,

I will put My hook in your nose,

And My bridle in your lips,

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

²⁹‘Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what grows by itself, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. ³⁰The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and survivors out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord will perform this.

³²‘Therefore this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it. ³³By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,” ’ declares the Lord. ³⁴‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”