and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”

Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,

He will go back the way he came – he will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.

I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’”

Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.

So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.