Isaiah 37:26-38

New International Version

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(A) it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(D) sprouting on the roof,^(E)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.

²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go^(F)
    and how you rage^(G) against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence^(H) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(I) in your nose^(J)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.^(K)

“This year^(M) you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year^(N) sow and reap,
    plant vineyards^(O) and eat their fruit.^(P)
31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root^(Q) below and bear fruit^(R) above.
³² For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,^(S)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.^(T)
The zeal^(U) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

“He will not enter this city^(V)
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp^(W) against it.
³⁴ By the way that he came he will return;^(X)
    he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
³⁵ “I will defend^(Y) this city and save it,
    for my sake^(Z) and for the sake of David^(AA) my servant!”