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.