28. I know all about you,even how fiercely angryyou are with me.
29. I have seen your prideand the tremendous hatredyou have for me.Now I will put a hookin your nose,a bit in your mouth,then I will send you backto where you came from.
30. Hezekiah, I will tell you what's going to happen. This year you will eat crops that grow on their own, and the next year you will eat whatever springs up where those crops grew. But the third year, you will plant grain and vineyards, and you will eat what you harvest.
31. Those who survive in Judah will be like a vine that puts down deep roots and bears fruit.
32. I, the Lord All-Powerful, will see to it that some who live in Jerusalem will survive.
33. I promise that the king of Assyria won't get into Jerusalem, or shoot an arrow into the city, or even surround it and prepare to attack.
34. As surely as I am the Lord, he will return by the way he came and will never enter Jerusalem.
35. I will protect it for the sake of my own honour and because of the promise I made to my servant David.
36. The Lord sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.
37. After this, King Sennacherib went back to Assyria and lived in the city of Nineveh.
38. One day he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, when his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. They escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esarhaddon became king.