26 That is why their people have so little powerand are so frightened and confused.They are as weak as grass,as easily trampled as tender green shoots.They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,scorched before it can grow lush and tall.
27 “But I know you well—where you stayand when you come and go.I know the way you have raged against me.
28 And because of your raging against meand your arrogance, which I have heard for myself,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth.I will make you returnby the same road on which you came.”
29 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true:“This year you will eat only what grows up by itself,and next year you will eat what springs up from that.But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them;you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.
30 And you who are left in Judah,who have escaped the ravages of the siege,will put roots down in your own soiland will grow up and flourish.
31 For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem,a group of survivors from Mount Zion.The passionate commitment of the lord of Heaven’s Armieswill make this happen!
32 “And this is what the lord says about the king of Assyria:“His armies will not enter Jerusalem.They will not even shoot an arrow at it.They will not march outside its gates with their shieldsnor build banks of earth against its walls.