

32 This very day he will halt at Nob he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

30 Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Give attention, O Laishah! O poor Anathoth! 31 Madmenah is in flight the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 27 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”Ģ8 He has come to Aiath he has passed through Migron at Michmash he stores his baggage 29 they have crossed over the pass at Geba they lodge for the night Ramah trembles Gibeah of Saul has fled. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt. 26 And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. 25 For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
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23 For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.Ģ4 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. 21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.Ģ0 In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 18 The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away. 17 The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. 14 My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.” 15 Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! 16 Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.

“By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones. 7 But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few 8 for he says: “Are not my commanders all kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”ġ2 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.ĥ Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger the staff in their hands is my fury! 6 Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 10:1 Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, 2 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 3 What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? 4 Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain.
