2 Kings 19:25-34

25‘1Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. 2Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.26Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were 3as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.27But 4I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.28Because of your raging against Me, And because your 5arrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I 6will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And 7I will turn you back by the way which you came.

29‘Then this shall be 8the sign for you: 9you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 3010The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and 11out of Mount Zion 12survivors. 13The zeal of 14the Lord will perform this.

32‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “15He 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 siege ramp against it. 3316By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. 34‘17For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and 18for My servant David’s sake.’”