1You people are in for trouble! You have made cruel and unfair laws
2that let you cheat the poor and needy and rob widows and orphans.
3But what will you do when you are fiercely attacked and punished by foreigners? Where will you run for help? Where will you hide your valuables?
4How will you escape being captured or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!The Lord's Purpose and the King of Assyria
5 as a club
6to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.
7He has even bigger plans in mind, because he wants to destroy many nations.
8The king of Assyria says:
My army commanders are kings!
9They have already captured the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus.
10-11 that defeated them.
21-22 will be punished.
24Now the Lord God All-Powerful says to his people in Jerusalem:
The Assyrians will beat you with sticks and abuse you, just as the Egyptians did. But don't be afraid of them.
25Soon I will stop being angry with you, and I will punish them for their crimes.
26I will beat the Assyrians with a whip, as I did the people of Midian near the rock at Oreb. And I will show the same mighty power that I used when I made a path through the sea in Egypt.
27Then they will no longer rule your nation. All will go well for you, and your burden will be lifted.
28Enemy troops have reached the town of Aiath. They have gone through Migron, and they stored their supplies at Michmash,
29before crossing the valley and spending the night at Geba. The people of Ramah are terrified; everyone in Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, has run away.
30Loud crying can be heard in the towns of Gallim, Laishah, and sorrowful Anathoth.
31No one is left in Madmenah or Gebim.
32Today the enemy will camp at Nob and shake a threatening fist at Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
33But the Lord All-Powerful
will use his fearsome might
to bring down the tallest trees
and chop off every branch.
34With an ax, the glorious Lord
will destroy every tree
in the forests of Lebanon.
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