21. Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you have prayed concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria: I have listened!
22. This is the word the Lord has spoken concerning him:She despises you, laughs you to scorn,the virgin daughter Zion;Behind you she wags her head,daughter Jerusalem.
23. Whom have you insulted and blasphemed,at whom have you raised your voiceAnd lifted up your eyes on high?At the Holy One of Israel!
24. Through the mouths of your messengersyou have insulted the Lord when you said:‘With my many chariots I went upto the tops of the peaks,to the recesses of Lebanon,To cut down its lofty cedars,its choice cypresses;I reached the farthest shelter,the forest ranges.
25. I myself dug wellsand drank foreign water;Drying up all the rivers of Egyptbeneath the soles of my feet.’
26. Have you not heard?A long time ago I prepared it,from days of old I planned it,Now I have brought it about:You are here to reducefortified cities to heaps of ruins,
27. Their people powerless,dismayed and distraught,They are plants of the field,green growth,thatch on the rooftops,Grain scorched by the east wind.
28. I know when you stand or sit,when you come or go,and how you rage against me.
29. Because you rage against meand your smugness has reached my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,And make you leave by the way you came.
30. This shall be a sign for you:This year you shall eat the aftergrowth,next year, what grows of itself;But in the third year, sow and reap,plant vineyards and eat their fruit!
31. The remaining survivors of the house of Judahshall again strike root belowand bear fruit above.
32. For out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant,and from Mount Zion, survivors.The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
33. Therefore, thus says the Lord about the king of Assyria:He shall not come as far as this city,nor shoot there an arrow,nor confront it with a shield,Nor cast up a siege-work against it.
34. By the way he came he shall leave,never coming as far as this city,oracle of the Lord.
35. I will shield and save this cityfor my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”
36. Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all those corpses, dead!