22. For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
23. For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25. For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
26. And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
27. And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”
28. He has come to Aiath;he has passed through Migron;at Michmash he stores his baggage;
29. they have crossed over the pass;at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.