| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you. | 1What sorrow awaits you Assyrians, who have destroyed others but have never been destroyed yourselves. You betray others, but you have never been betrayed. When you are done destroying, you will be destroyed. When you are done betraying, you will be betrayed. |
| 2O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. | 2But LORD, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strong arm each day and our salvation in times of trouble. |
| 3At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered, | 3The enemy runs at the sound of your voice. When you stand up, the nations flee! |
| 4and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon. | 4Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines, so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped! |
| 5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, | 5Though the LORD is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home of justice and righteousness. |
| 6and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure. | 6In that day he will be your sure foundation, providing a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD will be your treasure. |
| 7Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. | 7But now your brave warriors weep in public. Your ambassadors of peace cry in bitter disappointment. |
| 8The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man. | 8Your roads are deserted; no one travels them anymore. The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses. They have no respect for anyone. |
| 9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. | 9The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered. |
| 10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted. | 10But the LORD says: “Now I will stand up. Now I will show my power and might. |
| 11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. | 11You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you. |
| 12And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.” | 12Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire. |
| 13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might. | 13Listen to what I have done, you nations far away! And you that are near, acknowledge my might!” |
| 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?” | 14The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. “Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?” |
| 15He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, | 15Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong— |
| 16he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. | 16these are the ones who will dwell on high. The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress. Food will be supplied to them, and they will have water in abundance. |
| 17Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar. | 17Your eyes will see the king in all his splendor, and you will see a land that stretches into the distance. |
| 18Your heart will muse on the terror: “Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?” | 18You will think back to this time of terror, asking, “Where are the Assyrian officers who counted our towers? Where are the bookkeepers who recorded the plunder taken from our fallen city?” |
| 19You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand. | 19You will no longer see these fierce, violent people with their strange, unknown language. |
| 20Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. | 20Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals. You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure. It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut and whose stakes are firmly fixed. |
| 21But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass. | 21The LORD will be our Mighty One. He will be like a wide river of protection that no enemy can cross, that no enemy ship can sail upon. |
| 22For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. | 22For the LORD is our judge, our lawgiver, and our king. He will care for us and save us. |
| 23Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey. | 23The enemies’ sails hang loose on broken masts with useless tackle. Their treasure will be divided by the people of God. Even the lame will take their share! |
| 24And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. | 24The people of Israel will no longer say, “We are sick and helpless,” for the LORD will forgive their sins. |
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