20And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.21This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and mocked you; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head after you.22Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.23By the hand of your messengers you have taunted the LORD, and you have said, With my many chariots I myself have ascended the heights of the mountains, the flanks of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses, and I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its plantation.24I myself have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.25Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned it from days of old; now I have brought it to pass, and it will be that fortified cities become crashing heaps of ruins.26Their inhabitants were dismayed and ashamed; they were like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the roofs and like blight before the standing grain.27I know your sitting down and your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me.28Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come up into my ears, 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.29And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.30The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.31For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors; the zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.32Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it.33By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.34I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of David my servant.35And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.36Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived at Nineveh.37And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.