31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
32 For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.’
33 “Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:He will not enter this cityor shoot an arrow thereor come before it with a shieldor build up an assault ramp against it.
34 He will go backthe way he came,and he will not enter this city.This is the Lord’s declaration.
35 I will defend this city and rescue itbecause of Me and because of My servant David.”
36 Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning — there were all the dead bodies!
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.