29. “ ‘This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30. The remainder of the house of Judah which survives will again take root below and bear fruit above.
31. For from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of Yahweh will do this.
32. “ ‘Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, “He shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her.
33. By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come,” declares Yahweh.
34. And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”
35. It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses.
36. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.