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 shallbe 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.
30aAnd the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, And those who escape from Mount Zion. aThe zeal of the Lord1 of hosts will do this.’
32 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall anot come into this city, Nor shoot an arrow there, Nor come before it with shield, Nor build a siege mound against it.
33 By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,’ Says the Lord.
The remnant that is escaped - Terrible ravages seem to have been committed in the first attack (II Kings 18:13 note). And though the second invasion was comparatively harmless, yet it probably fell heavily on the cities of the west and the southwest. Thus the "escaped" were but "a remnant."
Bear fruit upward - The flourishing time of Josiah is the special fulfillment of this prophecy II Kings 23:15-20.
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