CLV(i)
26 Have you not heard from afar that it was made by Me? From days aforetime also, I formed it. Now will I bring it, and coming are you to cause tumult, to besieged mounds, defended cities."
27 And their dwellers are shorthanded; they are dismayed and ashamed. They become herbage of the field and green verdure, grass of the housetops, and blasted before raised."
28 Your rising and your sitting and your faring forth and your coming in I know, and your perturbance against Me."
29 Because your perturbance against Me and your tumult ascends in My ears, so I will place My gaff in your nose, and My bit in your lips, and I will reverse you by the way in which you came."
30 And this is the sign for you:Eat for the year the self-sown, and in the second year the spontaneous growth. Yet in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit."
31 And, in addition, the delivered of the house of Judah, the remnant finds root downward, and yields fruit upward,
32 for from Jerusalem shall fare forth a remnant, and the delivered from mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this."
33 Wherefore, thus says Yahweh as to the king of Assyria:"He shall not come into this city, and not direct an arrow there, and he shall not precede it with a shield, and he shall not pour out against it an earthwork."
34 By the way which he came, by it shall he return. Yet into this city he shall not enter,averring is Yahweh."
35 And I am a protection over this city, to save it on My Own account, and on account of David, My servant."