2 Kings 19:21-36

New American Standard Bible

²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

‘She, ^(A)the virgin daughter of Zion, has shown contempt for you and mocked you;
She, the daughter of Jerusalem, ^(B)has shaken her head behind you!
²²Whom have you ^(C)taunted and ^(D)blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
And ^[a]haughtily raised your eyes?
Against the ^(E)Holy One of Israel!
²³^(F)Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I went up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers.
And I entered its farthest resting place, its ^(G)thickest forest.
²⁴I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the soles of my feet I ^(H)dried up
All the streams of Egypt.”

²⁵‘^(I)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
^(J)Now I have brought it about,
That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.
²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were ^[b]powerless,
They were shattered and put to shame.
They were ^(K)like the vegetation of the field and the green grass,
Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.
²⁷But ^(L)I know your sitting down,
Your going out, your coming in,
And your raging against Me.
²⁸Because of your raging against Me,
And because your complacency has come up to My ears,
I ^(M)will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And ^(N)I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

²⁹‘Then this shall be ^(O)the sign for you: ^[c]you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what grows by itself, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. ³⁰^(P)The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and survivors ^(Q)out of Mount Zion. ^(R)The zeal of ^[d]the Lord will perform this.

³²‘Therefore this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “^(S)He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it. ³³^(T)By the way that he came, by ^[e]the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. ³⁴‘^(U)For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and ^(V)for My servant David’s sake.’”

³⁵^(W)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 the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of ^[f]the 185,000 were ^[g]dead. ³⁶So ^(X)Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and ^[h]returned home, and lived at ^(Y)Nineveh.