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while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded; they have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
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"But I know your rising and your sitting, your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
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Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
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"And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
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for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out, and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
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"Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it.
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By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
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For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
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That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.
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Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.