19. and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
20. Now therefore, Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the Lord, even you only.”
21. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “the Lord, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
22. this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23. Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
24. By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
25. I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26. “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
27. Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
28. But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
29. Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
30. “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31. The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32. For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.’
33. “Therefore the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says the Lord.
35. ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
36. Then the Lord’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
37. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.