23. Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?And against whom have you raised your voice,and lifted up your eyes haughtily?Against the Holy One of Israel!
24. Through your servantsyou have reproached the Lordand have said,‘With my many chariotsI have come up to the heights of the mountains,to the remotest parts of Lebanon;and I cut down its tall cedars,and its choice fir trees;and I will go to its highest peak,its thickest forest.
25. I have dug wellsand drunk water,and with the sole of my feetI have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
26. “Have you not heard?Long ago I have done it,from ancient times I have formed it.Now I have brought it to pass,that you should turn fortified citiesinto ruinous heaps.
27. Therefore, their inhabitants were short of strength;they were dismayed and humiliated;they were as the grass of the fieldand as the green herb,as the grass on the housetopsis scorched before it is grown up.
28. “But I know your abode,and your going out and your comingin,and your rage against Me.
29. Because your rage against Meand your tumult have 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 backon the way by which you came.
30. “This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year what grows of itself,and the second year what springs from the same,and in the third year sow and reapand plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
31. The surviving remnant of the house of Judahshall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32. For from Jerusalem shall go out a remnant,and those who escape out of Mount Zion.The zeal of the Lord of Hostsshall do this.
33. “Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city,nor shoot an arrow there,nor come before it with shields,nor build a siege ramp against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,and shall not come into this city,says the Lord.
35. For I will defend this city to save itfor My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.”
36. Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, these were all dead bodies.
37. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh.
38. It came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok, his god, that Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.