2 Kings 19:28
Good News Translation
I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth, and take you back by the same road you came."

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
I have seen your pride and the tremendous hatred you have for me. Now I will put a hook in your nose, a bit in your mouth, then I will send you back to where you came from.

New American Bible
Because you rage against me, and your smugness has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, And make you leave by the way you came.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

thy rage.

Psalm 2:1-5 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 7:6 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded:

Psalm 10:13,14 Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it. . . .

Psalm 46:6 Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Luke 6:11 And they were filled with madness: and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.

John 15:18,23,24 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

thy tumult.

Psalm 65:7 Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

Psalm 74:4,23 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs, . . .

Psalm 83:2 For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

I will put.

Job 41:2 Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

Psalm 32:9 Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.

Ezekiel 29:4 But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.

Ezekiel 38:4 And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.

Amos 4:2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.

by the way.

2 Kings 19:33,36,37 By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
27Thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I knew before, and thy rage against me. 28Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.29And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.…
Cross References
2 Kings 19:33
By the way that he came he shall return: and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.

2 Kings 19:36
And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.

Job 41:2
Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or bore through his jaw with a buckle?

Isaiah 30:28
His breath as a torrent overflowing even to the midst of the neck, to destroy the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of error that was in the jaws of the people.

Ezekiel 19:9
And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 29:4
But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.

2 Kings 19:27
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