MLV(i)
22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it and the choice fir trees of it. And I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
25 Have you not heard how I have done it from afar and formed it of times long-ago? Now I have made it occur, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
27 But I know your sitting down and your going out and your coming in and your raging against me. 28 Because of your raging against me and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 And this will be the sign to you: You* will eat this year what grows of itself and in the second year what springs of the same. And in the third year sow you* and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of it. 30 And the remnant that has escaped from the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion those who will escape. The zeal of Jehovah will perform this.
32 Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the king of Assyria, He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same will he return and he will not come to this city, says Jehovah. 34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.
35 And it happened that night, that the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed* him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned instead of him.
23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it and the choice fir trees of it. And I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
25 Have you not heard how I have done it from afar and formed it of times long-ago? Now I have made it occur, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
27 But I know your sitting down and your going out and your coming in and your raging against me. 28 Because of your raging against me and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
29 And this will be the sign to you: You* will eat this year what grows of itself and in the second year what springs of the same. And in the third year sow you* and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of it. 30 And the remnant that has escaped from the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion those who will escape. The zeal of Jehovah will perform this.
32 Therefore Jehovah says thus concerning the king of Assyria, He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. 33 By the way that he came, by the same will he return and he will not come to this city, says Jehovah. 34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake.
35 And it happened that night, that the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed* him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned instead of him.