NSB(i)
26 »Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it! And now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
27 »Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.
28 »I know where you stay and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
29 »For the reason that you rage against me and because your insolence (arrogance) has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will make you return by the way you came.«
30 »‘This will be the sign for you, O Hezekiah: ‘This year you will eat what grows by itself. The second year you will eat what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
31 »‘Again a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.
32 »‘Out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Jehovah will accomplish this.
33 »‘Therefore this is what Jehovah says concerning the king of Assyria: »He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield, or build a siege ramp against it.
34 »‘He will return by the way that he came. He will not enter this city, declares Jehovah.
35 »‘I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!’«