27. And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;
28. Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise--it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.
29. And this to thee [is] the sign, Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
30. And it hath continued--The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left--to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.
31. For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah [of Hosts] doth this.
32. Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city, Nor doth he shoot there an arrow, Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth he pour out against it a mount.
33. In the way that he cometh in--In it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah--
34. And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
35. And it cometh to pass, in that night, that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them [are] dead corpses.
36. And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;