19:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah, 19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 9 19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 10 he will receive 11 a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 12 with a sword in his own land.”’”
19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. 13 19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: 14
“The virgin daughter Zion 15
despises you, she makes fun of you;
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head after you. 16
19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?
At whom have you shouted, 17
and looked so arrogantly? 18
At the Holy One of Israel! 19
19:23 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 20
‘With my many chariots 21
I climbed up the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars,
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions, 22
its thickest woods.
19:24 I dug wells and drank
water in foreign lands. 23
With the soles of my feet I dried up
all the rivers of Egypt.’
19:25 24 Certainly you must have heard! 25
Long ago I worked it out,
In ancient times I planned 26 it;
and now I am bringing it to pass.
The plan is this:
Fortified cities will crash
into heaps of ruins. 27
19:26 Their residents are powerless, 28
they are terrified and ashamed.
They are as short-lived as plants in the field,
or green vegetation. 29
They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops 30
when it is scorched by the east wind. 31
19:27 I know where you live,
and everything you do. 32
19:28 Because you rage against me,
and the uproar you create has reached my ears; 33
I will put my hook in your nose, 34
and my bridle between your lips,
and I will lead you back the way
you came.”
19:29 35 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: 36 This year you will eat what grows wild, 37 and next year 38 what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce. 39 19:30 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. 40
19:31 For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;
survivors will come out of Mount Zion.
The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord 41 to his people 42 will accomplish this.
19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city,
nor will he shoot an arrow here. 43
He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, 44
nor will he build siege works against it.
19:33 He will go back the way he came.
He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.
19:34 I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’” 45