27. while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,are dismayed and confounded,and have become like plants of the fieldand like tender grass,like grass on the housetops,blighted before it is grown.
28. “‘I know your sitting downand your going out and coming in,and your raging against me.
29. Because you have raged against meand your complacency has come to my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,and I will turn you back on the wayby which you came.’
30. “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31. And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
33. “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.
35. For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
36. And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.