Isaiah 37:22-35

22this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “She has despised you and mocked you, The 1virgin 2daughter of Zion; She has 3shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!23Whom have you 4reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And 5haughtily 6lifted up your eyes? Against the 7Holy One of Israel!24Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of 8Lebanon; And I cut down its tall 9cedars and its choice cypresses. And I will go to its 10highest peak, its thickest 11forest.25I dug wells and drank waters, And 12with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of 13Egypt.’2614Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I 15planned it. Now 16I have brought it to pass, That 17you should turn fortified cities into 18ruinous heaps.27Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the 19vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As 20grass on the housetops 21is scorched before it is grown up.28But I 22know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me.29Because of your raging against Me And because your 2324arrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My 25hook in your nose And My 26bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back 27by the way which you came.

30“Then this shall be the sign for you: 28you will eat this year what 29grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31The 30surviving 31remnant of the house of Judah will again 32take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32For out of Jerusalem will go forth a 33remnant and out of Mount Zion 34survivors. The 35zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”’

33“Therefore, thus says the Lord 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 36siege ramp against it. 3437By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ declares the Lord. 35‘For I will 38defend this city to save it 39for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”