2Ki 19:20-34 | ESV | STEP | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel : Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard .

2 Kings 19:20-34

Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria ^aI have heard. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“She despises you, she scorns you—
^bthe virgin daughter of Zion;
she ^cwags her head behind you—
the daughter of Jerusalem.
22 “Whom have you ^dmocked and ^ereviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against ^fthe Holy One of Israel!
23 ^gBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ^h‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of ⁱLebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most ^jfruitful forest.
24 I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams ^kof Egypt.’
25 “Have you not heard
that ^lI determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what ^mnow I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,
26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become ⁿlike plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
27 “But I know your sitting down
^oand your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
28 Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will ^pput my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and ^qI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
29 “And this shall be ^rthe sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 30 ^sAnd the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion ^ta band of survivors. ^uThe zeal of the Lord will do this.

32 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or ^vcast up a siege mound against it. 33 ^wBy the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 34 ^xFor I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake ^yand for the sake of my servant David.”