2 Kings 19:28
Because of thy raging against Me, and for that thy tumult is come up into Mine ears, therefore will I put My hook in thy nose, and My bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against Me.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD.
Job 41:2(40-26) Canst thou put a ring into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a hook?
Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?
Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
Psalms 46:6(46-7) Nations were in tumult, kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
Psalms 74:4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy meeting-place; they have set up their own signs for signs.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:21-35
Sennacherib's Fall Predicted. ( b. c. 710.) 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted… Read the whole commentary →