25 ‘Did you not hear long ago
How ^aI made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That ^byou should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. ‡

26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As ^athe grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown. ‡

28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore ^aI will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
^bBy the way which you came. ‡

29 ‘This shall be a ^asign to you:
You shall eat this year such as grows¹ of itself,
And in the second year what springs from the same;
Also in the third year sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. ‡