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.
31. For from Jerusalem a remnant will go forth,and escapees from Mount Zion.“The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this.
32. “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city,shoot an arrow there,approach it with shield,or heap up a siege ramp against it.
33. By the way that he came, he will return;he will not enter this city,declares the Lord.
34. For I will protect this city to save it,for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.”
35. On that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, these were all dead bodies.