2 Kings 19:28

is come up into mine ears So the cry of Sodom is said (Genesis 18:21) to come upunto God, and grieve Him. See also James 5:4 where the cries of the oppressed labourers are said to be -entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth". The R.V. renders the first part of the verse Because of thy raging against me and for that thine arrogance is come up, &c.

I will put my hook in thy nose The Assyrian is but as a wild beast let forth and permitted to do harm, but he is to be caught and reduced to subjection again, now that the time has come to put an end to his work.

by the way by which thou camest Answering the boast that Sennacherib would go on till he had conquered Egypt.