Isaiah 31:4-9 ▼

4 For this is what the LORD said to me: As a lion or young lion growls over its prey when a band of shepherds is called out against it, and it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their noise, so the LORD of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.

5 Like hovering birds, so the LORD of Armies will protect Jerusalem; by protecting it, he will rescue it; by passing over it, he will deliver it.

6 Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.

7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the worthless idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

8 Then Assyria will fall, but not by human sword; a sword will devour him, but not one made by man. He will flee from the sword; his young men will be put to forced labor.

9 His rock will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the LORD’s declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.