22. Then you will dishonor your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered statues. You will throw them away like clothing ruined by stains. You will say to them, “Get out!”
23. The Lord will give you rain for the seed that you plant in the ground, and the food that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing. When that day comes, your cattle will graze in large pastures.
24. The oxen and the donkeys which work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.
25. There will be brooks and streams on every lofty mountain and every high hill. When the day of the great slaughter comes, towers will fall.
26. Then the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun. The light of the sun will be seven times as strong, like the light of seven days. When that day comes, the Lord will bandage his people’s injuries and heal the wounds he inflicted.
27. The name of the Lord is going to come from far away.His anger is burning.His burden is heavy.His lips are filled with fury.His tongue is like a devouring flame.
28. His breath is like an overflowing stream.It rises neck high,sifting the nations with a sieve of destruction,placing a bit in the mouths of the peopleto lead them astray.
29. You will sing a songlike the song you sing on a festival night.Your hearts will be happy like someone going out with a fluteon the way to the Lord’s mountain, to the rock of Israel.
30. The Lord will make his majestic voice heard.He will come down with all his might,with furious anger,with fire storms, windstorms, rainstorms, and hailstones.
31. At the sound of the Lord, the people of Assyria will be shattered.He will strike them with his rod.
32. To the sound of tambourines and lyres, the Lord will pound on them.He will fight them in battle, swinging his fists.
33. Topheth was prepared long ago.It was made ready for the king.It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs.The Lord’s breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur,setting it on fire.