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.
33. He will go back the way he came.He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.
34. I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”
35. That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
36. So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.
37. One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.