Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Thy tumult - insolence. Properly the blustering insolence which tranquility or prosperity begets х sha'ªnankaa (H7600), from shaa'an (H7599), to be tranquil; or shaa'ah, to be tumultuous].
Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose - like a wild beast led by a ring through the nose, he shall be forced back to his own country (cf. Job 41:1-2; Ezekiel 19:4; Ezekiel 29:4). Herein Sennacherib is a type of the last Antichrist, of whom the same is said (Ezekiel 38:4). In a bas-relief of Khorsabad, captives are led before the king by a cord attached to a hook, or ring, passing through the under lip, or the upper lip and nose.