2 Kings 19:20-28

Then Isaiah, Amoz’s son, sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, Israel’s God, says: I have heard your prayer about Assyria’s King Sennacherib. This is the message that the LORD has spoken against him: The young woman, Daughter Zion, despises you and mocks you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back. Whom did you insult and ridicule? Against whom did you raise your voice and pridefully lift your eyes? It was against the holy one of Israel! You’ve insulted the Lord with your messengers; you said, ‘I, with my many chariots, have gone up to the highest mountains, to the farthest reaches of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the best of its pine trees. I have reached its most remote lodging place, its best forest. I have dug wells, have drunk waters in foreign lands. With my own feet, I dried up all of Egypt’s streams.’ Haven’t you heard? I set this up long ago; I planned it in the distant past! Now I have made it happen, making fortified cities collapse into piles of rubble. Their citizens have lost their power. They are frightened and ashamed. They’ve become like plants in a field, tender green shoots, the grass on rooftops, burned up before it matures. I know where you live, how you go out and come in, and how you rage against me. And because you rage against me and because your pride has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bit in your mouth. I will make you go back the same way you came.