22
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted
thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Against the Holy
One of Israel.
23
By the hand of thy messengers, thou hast reproached the Lord and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof
and the choice fir trees thereof; and I will enter into the habitation of his borders
and into the forest of his Carmel.
24
I have dug and drunk the waters of others, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of defended places.
25
Hast thou never heard that from a long time
ago I made her,
and from ancient times I have formed her? Now I have made her come, and it shall be to lay waste fenced cities
into ruinous heaps.
26
Therefore their inhabitants’ hands were too short; dismayed and confounded, they shall be
as the grass of the field and
as the green herb,
as the hay on the housetops, that is dried up before it comes to maturity.
27
But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me.
28
Because thou hast raged against me and thy tumult has come up into my ears, therefore, I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou didst come.
29
And this
shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year such things as grow
again of themselves; and in the third year ye shall sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
30
And that which has escaped, that which is left of the house of Judah, shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and deliverance out of Mount Zion; the zeal of the LORD of the hosts shall do this.
32
Therefore, thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it.