to tell him, "The god you are trusting in has told you that you will not fall into my hands, but don't let that deceive you.

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

How long will you people insult me? How long will you love what is worthless and go after what is false?

I trust in the LORD for safety. How foolish of you to say to me, "Fly away like a bird to the mountains,

All who see me make fun of me; they stick out their tongues and shake their heads.

"You relied on the LORD," they say. "Why doesn't he save you? If the LORD likes you, why doesn't he help you?"

Do not reject me now that I am old; do not abandon me now that I am feeble.

They say, "God has abandoned him; let's go after him and catch him; there is no one to rescue him."

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, now and forever.

He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"

The people stood there watching while the Jewish leaders made fun of him: "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah whom God has chosen!"

"And this is what the LORD has said about the Assyrian emperor: 'He will not enter this city or shoot a single arrow against it. No soldiers with shields will come near the city, and no siege mounds will be built around it.

I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.' "