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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, ^(C1)I have heard you.'

"This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 'She, ^(C1)the virgin daughter of Zion, has shown contempt for you and mocked you; She, the daughter of Jerusalem, ^(C2)has shaken her head behind you!

-'Whom have you ^(C1)taunted and ^(C2)blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, And ^(F1)haughtily raised your eyes? Against the ^(C3)Holy One of Israel!

-'^(C1)Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord, And you have said, "With my many chariots I went up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers. And I entered its farthest resting place, its ^(C2)thickest forest.

-"I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the soles of my feet I ^(C1)dried up All the streams of Egypt."

'^(C1)Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. ^(C2)Now I have brought it about, That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

-'Therefore their inhabitants were ^(F1)powerless, They were shattered and put to shame. They were ^(C1)like the vegetation of the field and the green grass, Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.

-'But ^(C1)I know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.

-'Because of your raging against Me, And because your complacency has come up to My ears, I ^(C1)will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And ^(C2)I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

'Then this shall be ^(C1)the sign for you: ^(F1)you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what grows by itself, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

'^(C1)The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

'For out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and survivors ^(C1)out of Mount Zion. ^(C2)The zeal of ^(F1)the LORD will perform this.

'Therefore this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: "^(C1)He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it.

"^(C1)By the way that he came, by ^(F1)the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,"' declares the LORD.

'^(C1)For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and ^(C2)for My servant David's sake.'"