23:037:023 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?
and against whom
hast
thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
high?
even
against the Holy One of Israel.
23:037:024 By thy servants hast thou reproached the
Lord, and hast said,
By
the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height
of
the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut
down
the
tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof:
and
I
will enter into the height of his border, and the forest
of
his
Carmel.
23:037:025 I have digged, and drunk water; and with
the sole of my feet
have
I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
23:037:026 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have
done it; and of
ancient
times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it
to
pass,
that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
into
ruinous
heaps.
23:037:027 Therefore their inhabitants were of small
power, they were
dismayed
and confounded: they were as the grass of the
field,
and
as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and
as
corn
blasted before it be grown up.
23:037:028 But I know thy abode, and thy going out,
and thy coming in,
and
thy rage against me.
23:037:029 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult,
is come up into
mine
ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and
my
bridle
in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by
which
thou camest.
23:037:030 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye
shall eat this year
such
as groweth of itself; and the second year that which
springeth
of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and
reap,
and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
23:037:031 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall
again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
23:037:032 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and they that
escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the lord of
hosts shall
do
this.
23:037:033 Therefore thus saith the lord concerning
the king of Assyria,
He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor
come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against
it.
23:037:034 By the way that he came, by the same shall
he return, and
shall
not come into this city, saith the lord.
23:037:035 For I will defend this city to save it
for mine own sake, and
for
my servant David’s sake.
23:037:036 Then the angel of the lord went forth,
and smote in the camp
of
the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:
and
when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
were
all
dead corpses.


