26 And their inhabitants have become weak, trembling, and remain ashamed. They became like grass in the field, and tender greenery, like the growth on the rooftops, and the scorched corn, before they sprang up.

27 Whether you sit down, or go out, or go in, I know all things; I know also thy boldness against me.

28 Because of thy boldness against me, and because thy arrogance hath come unto my ears, I will put my ring in thy nostrils, and my bit in thy mouth, and I will bring thee back by the same way by which thou camest.

29 And this is a sign unto thee, Hezekiah: In this year ye shall eat that which has grown of the fallen grain, and in the next year that it shall be native, and in the third year ye shall sow and reap, and ye shall plant vineyards, and eat of their fruit.

30 And that which is left in the house of Judah shall again take root below, and bear fruit above,

31 for out of Jerusalem shall come a remnant, and that which is saved from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: "He shall not enter into this city, nor cast an arrow therein, nor come near it with a shield, nor build a rampart against it.

33 By the same way by which he came, he will return, and he will not enter this city, says the Lord.

34 I will guard this city, that I may save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant."

35 And it came to pass that night that an angel of the Lord went and smote in the camp of Assyria a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold, all the bodies were dead.

36 And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.

37 And it came to pass, as he worshipped in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons slew him with the sword, and they themselves fled to the land of Ararat. And Asardan his son reigned in his stead.

Chapter 20

1 In those days Hezekiah was mortally ill, and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him, and said to him, 'Thus says the Lord, Make a covenant for your house, for you will die and not recover.'