24 You have used your messengers to insult the Lord.You have said, “I have many chariots.With them I have gone to the tops of the mountains.I have climbed the highest mountains of Lebanon.I have cut down its tallest cedars.I have cut down its best pine trees.I have gone to its greatest heights.I have gone to its best forests.
25 I have dug wells in foreign countries.I have drunk water there.By the soles of my feet,I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.”
26 “‘King of Assyria, surely you have heard.Long ago I, the Lord, planned these things.Long ago I planned them.Now I have made them happen.I allowed you to turn those strong, walled citiesinto piles of rocks.
27 The people living in those cities were weak.They were frightened and put to shame.They were like grass in the field.They were like tender, young grass.They were like grass that grows on the housetop.It is burned by the wind before it can grow.
28 “‘I know when you rest and when you come and go.I know how you speak against me.
29 You speak strongly against me.And I have heard your proud words.So I will put my hook in your nose.And I will put my bit in your mouth.Then I will force you to leave my countrythe same way that you came.’
30 “Then the Lord said, ‘Hezekiah, I will give you this sign:This year you will eat the grain that grows wild.And the second year you will eat what grows wild from that.But in the third year, plant grain and harvest it.Plant vineyards and eat their fruit.