28. Because you rage against me,and the uproar you create has reached my ears;I will put my hook in your nose,and my bridle between your lips,and I will lead you back the wayyou came.”
29. This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.
30. Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.
31. For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion.The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.
32. So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city,nor will he shoot an arrow here.He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors,nor will he build siege works against it.