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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2to deprive the needy of justice and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, so that widows may become their spoil and so that they may plunder orphans! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What will you do on the day of Judgment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you run for help, and where will you leave your wealth, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4so you won't have to crouch among those in chains or fall among the slain? "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"How terrible it will be for Assyria, the rod of my anger! The club is in their hands! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I'm sending my fury against a godless nation, and I'll command him against the people with whom I'm angry to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But this is not what he intends, and this is not what he thinks in his mind; but it is in his mind to destroy, and to cut down many nations. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Because this is what he is saying: 'My commanders are all kings, are they not? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10As my hand has reached to the idolatrous kingdoms whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11will I not deal with Jerusalem and her idols as I have dealt with Samaria and her images?'" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"For the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem; he will punish the speech that comes from that willful heart of Assyria's king and the haughty look in his eyes. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He keeps bragging: 'I've done it by the strength of my hand, and by my wisdom, because I'm so clever. I removed the boundaries of peoples, and plundered their treasures; like a bull I brought down those who sat on thrones. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14My hand has found, as if in a nest, the wealth of the people; and as one gathers eggs that have been abandoned, so I have gathered all the inhabitants of the earth. Nothing moved a wing, opened its mouth, or chirped.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Does the ax exalt itself over the one who swings it? Or does the saw magnify itself in opposition to the one who wields it? As if a rod were to wield those who lift it, or as if a club were to brandish the one who is not wood! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Therefore, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will send a wasting disease among Assyria's sturdy warriors, and under its glory a conflagration will be kindled, like a blazing bonfire. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"The light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame, and it will burn and consume Assyria's thorns and briers in a single day. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The splendor of its forest and its fruitful land the LORD will destroy— both soul and body— and Assyria will be as when a dying man wastes away. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19What survives of the trees in his forest will be so few that a child can count them." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20At that time, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer rely on the one who struck them down, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For even if your people of Israel number as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Overwhelming, righteous destruction is decreed, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23because the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will bring about destruction, as has been decreed, throughout the entire region. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies says: "My people, you who live in Zion, don't be afraid of the Assyrians, of the rod that beats you, who lift up their club against you as the Egyptians did. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25In just a little while, my fury will come to an end, and my anger then will be directed to their destruction. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The LORD of the Heavenly Armies will brandish a whip against them, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as his staff was stretched out over the sea, so he will lift it up as he did in Egypt. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27At that time, his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck. Indeed, the yoke will be broken, because you've become obese." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"The Assyrian commander has come upon Aiath and has passed through Migron; he stores his supplies at Michmash. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He has crossed over by the pass; his overnight lodging is at Geba. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Cry aloud, you daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laish! Poor Anathoth! |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Marmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim take cover. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fists at the mountain that is the Daughter of Zion, at Jerusalem's hill. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One." |
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