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4 For thus says the LORD to me: As a lion or its young growling over the prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither dismayed by their shouts nor cowed by their noise, So shall the LORD of hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, upon its height. 5 Like hovering birds, so the LORD of hosts shall shield Jerusalem, To shield and deliver, to spare and rescue. 6 Return, O Israelites, to him whom you have utterly deserted. 7 On that day each one of you shall reject his idols of silver and gold, which your hands have made. 8 Assyria shall fall by a sword, not wielded by human being, no mortal sword shall devour him; He shall flee before the sword, and his young men shall be impressed as laborers. 9 He shall rush past his crag in panic, and his princes desert the standard in terror, Says the LORD who has a fire in Zion and a furnace in Jerusalem. Isaiah 31:4-9, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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