³¹ Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make ^[a]your peace with me and come out to me, and eat, ^(A)each one, from his vine and each from his fig tree, and drink, each one, the waters of his own cistern,

¹⁶ Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘^[a]Surrender to me and come out to me, and eat, each one, of his ^(A)vine and each of his fig tree, and each drink of the ^(B)waters of his own cistern,

⁸ Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will ^(A)receive his own ^[a]reward according to his own labor.

⁷ Who at any time serves ^(A)as a soldier at his own expense? Who ^(B)plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not ^[a]consume some of the milk of the flock?

^6 (A)The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.