Isa 37:29 | NET2full | STEP | Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears , I will put my hook in your nose , and my bit between your lips , and I will lead you back the way you came .

Isaiah 37:29

29 Because you rage against me
and the uproar you create has reached my ears, ^{▼▼tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךָ (shaʾananekha, “your complacency”) is emended to שְׁאוֹנְךָ (sheʾonekha, “your uproar”). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38. However, the LXX seems to support the MT, and Sennacherib’s cavalier dismissal of Yahweh depicts an arrogant complacency (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:658, n. 10).}
I will put my hook in your nose, ^{▼▼sn The word-picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.}
and my bit between your lips,
and I will lead you back
the way you came.