29. ‘This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:‘This year you will eat what grows by itself,and the second year what springs from that.But in the third year sow and reap,plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30. Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judahwill take root below and bear fruit above.
31. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.‘The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
32. ‘Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:‘ “He will not enter this cityor shoot an arrow here.He will not come before it with shieldor build a siege ramp against it.