22 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee, hath mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head after thee.

23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? and against whom hast thou raised high thy voice? thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel.

24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I have ascended the height of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down the ’loftiness of his cedars, the choice of his ﬁr-trees; and I will come into the height of his border, the forest of his garden-land.

25 I have digged, and drunk waters; and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the canals of Mazor. ’

26 Hast thou not heard? from long ago I made it, from ancient days I formed it; now have I brought it to pass, and thou hast been (destined) to lay waste, as ruinous heaps, fortified cities.

27 And their inhabitants were short of hand, they were dis- mayed and ashamed: they were (as) grass of the ﬁeld, and green ’algke, grass of the hoUse tops, and a cornfield before it stands in stalk

28 And thy down-sitting, and thy going out and thy coming in I know, andthy rage, against me.

29 Because thy rage against me and. thy recklessness is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

24. ‘fir-trees’: or, ‘cypresses’: ‘border,’ i.e. limit: hence perhaps ‘his furthest ’25. Mazor, see xix. 6.26. ‘destined’: or, ‘an ’ or, ‘able,’ to be supplied: some take it as 3rd pers.: ‘and it shall ’28. ‘rage,’ lit. ‘enraging of ’29. ‘recklessness,’ or, ‘(careless) ‘: as in xxxii. 9.

30 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

31 And the escaped of the house of Judah that are left, shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion; the jealousy of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.

33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast up a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

35 And I will protect this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant ’s sake.

36 And the. angel ’the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of Assyria an hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and (men) arose earl in the morning, and behold, they were all dead corpses.

37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria broke up, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

38 And it came ’pass, as he was worshipping in the house of - Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote ’ him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.