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!
37. So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh.
38. When he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.