17. “Surely, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have annihilated the nations and their lands
18. and have put their gods in the fire, for they were no gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; thus they have been destroyed.
19. So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You, O Lord, are God alone.”
20. Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21. This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she ridicules you—virgin daughter of Zion.Behind you, she shakes her head—daughter of Jerusalem.
22. Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?And against whom have you raised a voiceand lifted your eyes upward?Against the Holy One of Israel.
23. By your messengersyou have taunted the Lord,and have said,‘With my many chariotsI have gone up the height of the mountains,to farthest reaches of Lebanon,and I will cut down its tallest cedars,its choicest junipers.I will enter its most remote canopies of night,its dense forest.
24. I have dug wellsand drunk foreign waters,and I dried up with the sole of my footall the streams of Egypt.’
25. “Have you not heard?Long ago I arranged it,in ancient times I formed it;now I bring it to pass,that you will turn impregnable citiesinto desolate heaps of stones.
26. Their inhabitants are powerless;they are terrified and ashamed.They are like grass of the fieldand new vegetation,grass on the roof tops,scorched before it stands.
27. “But I know your dwelling place,your going out and your coming in,and your raging against Me.
28. Because you have raged against Me,and your self-assuredness has come up to My ears,I will put My hook in your noseand My bridle on your lips,and I will turn you backon the way by which you came.
29. “This will be the sign to you: This year you will eat what grows itself,and in the second year the same.Then in the third year sow, reap,and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
30. The spared of the house of Judah who remainwill again take root below, and bear fruit above.