“This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.”
Isaiah's prophecy begins with a statement of God's response to the Assyrian king, establishing that the virgin daughter of Zion has despised him and laughed him to scorn, that Jerusalem shakes her head at him. The personification of Zion as a virgin daughter and the assertion that she despises rather than fears the Assyrian king inverts the power dynamic established by the Rabshakeh. The oracle suggests that from God's perspective, the Assyrian threat is contemptible.
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