¹² So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His ^(A)work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will ^[a]punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and ^(B)the arrogant pride of his eyes.”

²⁵ to ^(A)break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his ^(B)yoke will be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders.

⁷ Behold, I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will ^(A)hear news and ^(B)return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Assyrians Destroyed

³⁶ Then the ^(A)angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of ^[a]the 185,000 were ^[b]dead. ³⁷ So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and ^[c]returned home and lived in ^(B)Nineveh. ³⁸ Then it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped to the land of ^(C)Ararat. And his son ^(D)Esarhaddon became king in his place.