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.’