2 Kings 19:20-34

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Virgin Daughter Zion despises you. She jeers at you.
The Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head at you.
²² Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
Against whom have you lifted up your voice and raised your eyes
    to heaven?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
²³ By your messengers you have taunted the Lord.
You have said, “With my many chariots I have gone up
    to the heights of the mountains,
    to the most remote part of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars and the best of its fir trees.
I went in to its farthest dwelling place, the most lush of its forests.
²⁴ I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.”

²⁵ Have you not heard?
From long ago I, the Lord, did this.
From days of eternity I formed it,
and now I have brought it about
    that fortified cities crash into piles of ruined stones.
²⁶ Their inhabitants, powerless, are dismayed and ashamed.
They are like plants in the field and fresh green grass,
like grass on the roof, scorched before it becomes a full-grown stalk.
²⁷ I know when you sit down, and when you go out,
and when you come in again, and how you rage against me.
²⁸ Because you rage against me,
because your arrogance has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you go back by the way you came.
²⁹ This will be a sign for you:
This year you will eat what grows naturally,
next year what grows naturally from that,
but in the third year, you will sow and harvest.
You will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
³⁰ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
    will again take root below and produce fruit above.
³¹ For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem,
and survivors from Mt. Zion.
The zeal of the Lord will do this.

³² Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
He will not come into this city.
He will not shoot an arrow there.
He will not advance against it with a shield,
and he will not build up a siege ramp against it.
³³ By the same way he came he will go back,
but he will not come into this city.
A declaration of the Lord:
³⁴ I will protect and save this city for my own sake
and for the sake of my servant David.