22. this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you:Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.
23. Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed?Who have you raised your voice againstand lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
24. You have mocked the Lord through your servants.You have said, “With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,to the far recesses of Lebanon.I cut down its tallest cedars,its choice cypress trees.I came to its distant heights,its densest forest.
25. I dug wells and drank water.I dried up all the streams of Egyptwith the soles of my feet.”
26. Have you not heard? I designed it long ago;I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass,and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.
27. Their inhabitants have become powerless,dismayed, and ashamed.They are plants of the field,tender grass,grass on the rooftops,blasted by the east wind.
28. But I know your sitting down,your going out and your coming in, and your raging against Me.
29. Because your raging against Meand your arrogance have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will make you go backthe way you came.
30. “ ‘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.
31. The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32. For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.’
33. “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.
34. He will go backthe way he came,and he will not enter this city.This is the Lord’s declaration.
35. I will defend this city and rescue itbecause of Me and because of My servant David.”
36. Then 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!