Berean Standard Bible

2 Kings 19:25-34

25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

27But I know your sitting down,your going out and coming in,and your raging against Me.28Because your rage and arrogance against Mehave reached My ears,I will put My hook in your noseand My bit in your mouth;I will send you backthe way you came.’

29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah:

This year you will eatwhat grows on its own,and in the second yearwhat springs from the same.But in the third year you will sow and reap;you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.30And the surviving remnant of the house of Judahwill again take root belowand bear fruit above.31For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem,and survivors from Mount Zion.The zeal of the LORD of Hosts1will accomplish this.

32So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria:

‘He will not enter this cityor shoot an arrow into it.He will not come before it with a shieldor build up a siege ramp against it.33He will go back the way he came,and he will not enter this city,declares the LORD.34I will defend this cityand save itfor My own sakeand for the sake of My servant David.’”

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Notes

1. 2 Kings 19:31 LXX, many Hebrew manuscripts, and an alternate MT reading; the other alternate reads The zeal of the LORD. ↩

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