21 Then Amots’ son Yeshayah sent this message to King Hezkiyah: “Yisrael’s god Yahweh says that because you prayed to me about the Assyrian King Sennacherib, 22 then this is what Yahweh pronounces about him:

Tsiyyon’s (Zion’s) virgin daughter despises you—she scorns you.

Yerushalem’s daughter shakes her head at you.

23 Who is it that you’ve defied and insulted?

Who did you raise your voice against

and arrogantly challenged?

It was Yisrael’s holy one.

24 You’ve defied my master by sending your servants,

and you’ve said that you’ve gone to the tops of the mountains with your chariots—

up to the remotest parts of Lebanon to cut down its tallest cedars and best pines.

You’ve said that you’ll enter the highest parts of its forest plantation.

25 It’s me who has dug and drunk water,

and dried up all of Egypt’s canals with the soles of my feet.

26 “Haven’t you heard that I determined it from long ago.

≈ I planned it since ancient times and now I’m making it happen,

→ and you’re about to make fortified cities into desolate heaps of ruins.

27 Their powerless inhabitants are dismayed and ashamed.

They come and go like the vegetation in the countryside,

and like how a grass roof doesn’t stay green for long

and like a field as the grain crop grows.

28 “I know when you sit down and when you go in or out,

and I know your raging against me.

29 Because of that raging against me,

≈ and your arrogance that’s reached my ears,

I’ll put my hook in your nose

≈ and my bit in your mouth,

and I’ll send you home on the same road that you came here on.”

30 So this will be the sign for you Hezkiyah:

This year you’ll eat wild crops,

and next year you’ll eat the self-seeded growth.

But in the third year you must sow and harvest,

and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

31 The people of Yehudah who’ve remained here

will send their roots down and their fruit will grow up,

32 because a remnant will come out of Yerushalem,

≈ and survivors from Mt. Tsiyyon (Zion).

Commander-in-chief Yahweh will accomplish this through his zeal.

33 Therefore Yahweh says this about the Assyrian king:

He won’t come into this city and he won’t shoot an error here.

≈ He won’t bring a shield near it, and he won’t build ramps up against it.

34 He’ll return by the road that he came on, and he won’t enter this city.

That is Yahweh’s declaration 35 and I’ll protect this city and rescue it for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.