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 about, That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.26Therefore their inhabitants were 3powerless, They were shattered and put to shame. They were 4like the vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.27But 5I know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.28Because of your raging against Me, And because your complacency has come up to My ears, I 6will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And 7I will turn you back by the way by 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 grows by itself, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 3010The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31For out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and survivors 11out of Mount Zion. 12The zeal of 13the Lord will perform this.

32‘Therefore this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “14He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it. 3315By the way that he came, by 16the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. 34‘17For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and 18for My servant David’s sake.’”