Isaiah 37:24-34

24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.
25 I dug wells and drank waters, I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'
26 "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
27 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.
28 "I know your rising up and your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
29 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.
30 "And this shall be the sign for you: This year 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.
31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
32 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.
33 "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.
34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. With 2 Kings 19.26: Heb [field]
  • [b]. Q Ms Gk: MT lacks [your rising up]
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