Isaiah 37:21-35

Evangelical Heritage Version

The virgin daughter of Zion^[a] despises you and jeers at you.
The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at you in scorn.
²³ Who is it whom you have mocked and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted up your proud eyes?
It is against the Holy One of Israel.
²⁴ You have used your servants to mock the Lord.
You have boasted, “I have driven my many chariots
up the high mountains, to the most remote parts of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars and its best fir trees.
I have reached its highest peak, its most lush forest.
²⁵ I dug wells and drank their water,
and I dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the soles of my feet.”

²⁶ Have you not heard?
I did all this long ago.
I formed all this in ancient times.
Now I caused it all to take place.
I enabled you to destroy fortified cities,
reducing them to heaps of ruins.
²⁷ Their inhabitants were powerless.
Overwhelmed and ashamed,
they were like plants in the field,
like fresh green grass, like grass on a housetop,
and like a field before it has grown.^[b]
28 But I know when you stand and when you sit,^[c]
when you go out and when you come in,
and how you rage wildly against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me,
and 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 same way that you came.

This year you will eat what grows by itself.
Next year you will eat what springs up from that.
But in the third year, you will sow crops and harvest them.
You will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
³¹ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah
will again put down roots below and bear fruit above.
³² For from Jerusalem a remnant will go out,
and survivors from Mount Zion.
The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.

He will not enter this city.
He will not shoot an arrow there.
He will not advance against it with a shield,
and he will not build a siege ramp against it.
³⁴ He will go back by the same route that he came,
and he will not enter this city, declares the Lord.
³⁵ For I will defend this city to save it,
for my own sake,
and for the sake of my servant David.