Yeshayahu 37:15-32 ישעיהו ל״ז:ט״ו-ל״ב

And Ḥizqiyyahu prayed to the Lord, saying,

O Lord of hosts, God of Yisra᾽el that sittest upon the keruvim, Thou art the God, Thou alone, of all the king­doms of the earth: Thou hast made heaven and earth.

Bend Thy ear, O Lord, and hear: open Thy eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sanĥeriv, which he has sent to taunt the living God.

Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the Lord, even Thou only.

Then Yesha῾yahu the son of Amoż sent to Ḥizqiyyahu, saying, Thus says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sanĥeriv king of Ashshur.

This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Żiyyon, despises thee, and laughs thee to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim tosses her head at thee.

Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.

By thy servants hast thou taunted the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Levanon; and I have cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypresses: and I will enter into its farthest height, its deepest forest.

I have dug, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the canals of Mażor.

Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that fortified cities should be laid waste into ruinous heaps.

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 corn blasted before it be grown up.

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

Because thy rage against me, and thy confidence is come up to my ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou didst come.

And this shall be a sign to thee, you shall eat this year such as grows of itself; and the second year that which springs of the same: and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Yehuda shall again take root downwards, and bear fruit upwards:

for out of Yerushalayim shall a remnant go out, and they that escape out of mount Żiyyon: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.