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¹ Which they have prescribed ² And that they may rob the fatherless. ³ And where will you leave your glory? ⁴ But His hand is stretched out still. ⁵ And the staff in whose hand is My indignation. ⁶ And to tread them down like the mire of the streets. ⁷ And cut off not a few nations. ⁸ ‘Are not my princes altogether kings? ⁹ Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰ Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹ Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’ ” ¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.” ¹³ So I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man. ¹⁴ Nor opened his mouth with even a peep.” ¹⁵ Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood! ¹⁶ Like the burning of a fire. ¹⁷ His thorns and his briers in one day. ¹⁸ And they will be as when a sick man wastes away. ¹⁹ That a child may write them. ²⁰ But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. ²¹ To the Mighty God. ²² The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness. ²³ In the midst of all the land. ²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt. ²⁵ For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.” ²⁶ And the Lord of hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt. ²⁷ And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil. ²⁸ At Michmash he has attended to his equipment. ²⁹ Gibeah of Saul has fled. ³⁰ O poor Anathoth! ³¹ The inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge. ³² The hill of Jerusalem. ³³ And the haughty will be humbled. ³⁴ And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.