Isaiah 37:21-35
Yahweh’s Answer Through Isaiah
21Then aIsaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22this is the word that Yahweh has spoken against him: “She has despised you and mocked you,The avirgin bdaughter of Zion;She has cshaken her head behind you,The daughter of Jerusalem!
23“Whom have you 1,areproached and blasphemed?And against whom have you heightened your voiceAnd 2haughtily blifted up your eyes?Against the cHoly One of Israel!24“Through your servants you have 1reproached the Lord,And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,To the remotest parts of aLebanon;And I cut down its tall bcedars and its choice cypresses.And I will go to its 2highest peak, its thickest cforest.25‘I dug wells and drank waters,And awith the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of 1Egypt.’26“aHave you not heard?Long ago I did it;From days of old I bformed it.Now cI have brought it to pass,That dyou should devastate fortified cities into eruinous heaps.27“So their inhabitants were short of power;They were dismayed and put to shame;They were as the aplant of the field and as the green herb,As bgrass on the rooftops 1is scorched before it rises.28“But I aknow your sitting downAnd your going out and your coming inAnd your raging against Me.29“Because of your raging against MeAnd because your 1,apresumptuousness has come up to My ears,Therefore I will put My bhook in your noseAnd My cbridle in your lips,And I will turn you back dby the way which you came.30“Then this shall be the sign for you: 1you will eat this year what agrows of its own accord, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31“And the asurviving bremnant of the house of Judah will again ctake root downward and bear fruit upward. 32“For out of Jerusalem will go forth a aremnant and out of Mount Zion 1survivors. The bzeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.”’
33“Therefore, thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, ‘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 asiege ramp against it. 34‘aBy the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ declares Yahweh. 35‘Indeed I will adefend this city to save it bfor My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”