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29 Your insolence[a] has reached my ears,
    so I’ll put my hook in your nose
        and my bit in your mouth,[b]
and I’ll make you turn back on the road
    by which you came.

30 “And this will be your sign, Hezekiah:[c] Eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 Then the ones belonging to the house of Judah who have escaped will gather,[d] and those who are found[e] will take root downward and bear fruit upward.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because your raging against me and your insolence; cf. LXX
  2. Isaiah 37:29 Lit. lips; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lip
  3. Isaiah 37:30 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks Hezekiah
  4. Isaiah 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads be increased
  5. Isaiah 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and the remainder; cf. LXX