29. “This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30. The surviving remnant of the house of Israel will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31. For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.
32. Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:He will not enter this cityor shoot an arrow thereor come before it with a shieldor build up an assault ramp against it.
33. He will go backon the road that he cameand he will not enter this city.This is the Lord’s declaration.
34. I will defend this city and rescue itfor My sake and for the sake of My servant David.”
35. That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning — there were all the dead bodies!
36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.
37. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.