Isaiah 37:30-38

Common English Bible

³⁰ Now this will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows by itself. Next year you will eat what grows from that. But in the third year, plant seed and harvest it; plant vineyards and eat their fruit. ³¹ The survivors of Judah’s family who have escaped will put down roots and bear fruit above. ³² Those who remain will go out from Jerusalem, and those who survive will go out from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of heavenly forces will do this.

³³ Therefore, the Lord says this about Assyria’s king: He won’t enter this city. He won’t shoot a single arrow here. He won’t come near the city with a shield. He won’t build a ramp to besiege it. ³⁴ He’ll go back by the same way he came. He won’t enter this city, declares the Lord. ³⁵ I will defend this city and save it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.

³⁶ The Lord’s messenger went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand soldiers in the Assyrian camp. When people got up the next morning, there were dead bodies everywhere. ³⁷ So Assyria’s King Sennacherib left and went back to Nineveh, where he stayed. ³⁸ Later, while he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with a sword. Then they escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon ruled after him.