21And 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,22this 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 behind you.23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.24By your servants you have taunted the Lord and said, With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the flanks of Lebanon; I will cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest height, its forest plantation.25I dug wells and drank water, and with the sole of my foot I dried up all the streams of Egypt.26Have you not heard that I determined this long ago? I planned it in days of old, and now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into crashing heaps of ruins.27Their inhabitants were short of hand; they were dismayed and put to shame; they became vegetation of the field and herb of grass, grass of the roofs and a field before the standing grain.28I know your sitting down and your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me.29Because you have raged against me and your security 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 on the way by which you came.30And 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; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.31And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.32For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a survivor; the jealousy of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.33Therefore 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.34By the way that he came, by that he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.35And I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of David my servant.36And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of Assyria; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead bodies.37Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived at Nineveh.38And as he was bowing down in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.