2 Kings 19:20-28

New American Standard Bible

God’s Answer through Isaiah

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, ^(A)I have heard you.’ ²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

‘She, ^(B)the virgin daughter of Zion, has shown contempt for you and mocked you;
She, the daughter of Jerusalem, ^(C)has shaken her head behind you!
²²Whom have you ^(D)taunted and ^(E)blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
And ^[a]haughtily raised your eyes?
Against the ^(F)Holy One of Israel!
²³^(G)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 ^(H)thickest forest.
²⁴I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the soles of my feet I ^(I)dried up
All the streams of Egypt.”

²⁵‘^(J)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
^(K)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 ^(L)like the vegetation of the field and the green grass,
Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.
²⁷But ^(M)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 ^(N)will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And ^(O)I will turn you back by the way by which you came.