25. Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it, and of yemei kedem (days of old), that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and put to shame; they were as the esev of the sadeh, and as the green herb, as the khasir (grass) on the gagot (rooftops) is sun-scorched before it is grown up.
27. But I know thy sitting, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against Me.
28. Because thy rage against Me and thy insolence is come up into Mine ears, therefore I will put My hook in thy nose, and My Bit in thy sfatayim (lips), and I will turn thee back by the derech by which thou camest.
29. And this shall be HaOt (the Sign) unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such that growth of itself, and the second year that which springeth from the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant kramim (vineyards) and eat the fruit thereof.
30. And the remnant that is escaped of the Bais Yehudah shall yet again take shoresh (root) downward, and bear pri upward.
31. For out of Yerushalayim shall go forth She'erit (Remnant) and they that escape out of Mt Tziyon; the zeal of Hashem Tzva'os shall accomplish this.
32. Therefore thus saith Hashem concerning Melech Ashur, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot khetz (an arrow) there, nor come before it with mogen, nor cast a siege ramp against it.
33. By the derech that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Hashem.
34. For I will defend this city, to save it, for Mine Own sake, and for the sake of Dovid Avdi.