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I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places (37:25) 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 (37:26) 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 (37:27) But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me (37:28) 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 (37:29) 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 (37:30) And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: (37:31) 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 (37:32) 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 (37:33) By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord (37:34) For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake (37:35) 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 (37:36) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh (37:37) And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead
(37:38)
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