By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
I myself will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.