²⁹ ‘Then this shall be ^(A)the sign for you: ^[a]you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. ^30 (B)The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹ For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and ^(C)out of Mount Zion ^[b]survivors. ^(D)The zeal of ^[c]the Lord will perform this.

³² ‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “^(E)He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it. ^33 (F)By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. ³⁴ ‘^(G)For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and ^(H)for My servant David’s sake.’”

^35 (I)Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when ^[d]men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were ^[e]dead.

God Is Gracious and Just