rsv 2Kings:19:21-31
rsv@2Kings:19:21 @ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem.
rsv@2Kings:19:22 @ "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
rsv@2Kings:19:23 @ By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, `With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.
rsv@2Kings:19:24 @ I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'
rsv@2Kings:19:25 @ "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
rsv@2Kings:19:26 @ while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?
rsv@2Kings:19:27 @ "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
rsv@2Kings:19:28 @ Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
rsv@2Kings:19:29 @ "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
rsv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
rsv@2Kings:19:31 @ for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.