24. Your oxen and donkeys will work the soil. They will have all the food they need. You will have to use shovels and pitchforks to spread all the food for your animals to eat.
25. Every mountain and hill will have streams filled with water. These things will happen after many people are killed and the towers are pulled down.
26. At that time the light from the moon will be bright like the sun. The light from the sun will be seven times brighter than now. The light from the sun in one day will be like a full week. These things will happen when the Lord bandages his broken people and heals the hurts he gave them.
27. Look! The Lord comes from far away.His anger is like a fire with thick clouds of smoke.His mouth is filled with anger,and his tongue is like a burning fire.
28. The Lord’s breath is like a rushing river.It rises until it reaches the throat.He will judge the nations as if he is sifting them through the strainer of destruction.He will place in their mouths a bit that will lead them the wrong way.
29. You will sing happy songsas on the nights you begin a festival.You will be happy as people listening to flutesas they go to the mountain of the Lord.The Lord is the Rock of Israel.
30. The Lord will cause all people to hear his great voice.He will cause them to see his powerful arm come down.It will come with anger like a great fire that burns everything.It will be like a great storm with much rain and hail.
31. Assyria will be afraid when it hears the voice of the Lord.The Lord will beat Assyria with a rod.
32. The Lord will punish Assyria with a rod.He will beat them to the music of tambourines and harps.The Lord will fight against them with his mighty weapons.
33. Topheth has been made ready for a long time.It is ready for the king.It was made deep and wide.There is much wood and fire there.And the Lord’s breath will comelike a stream of burning sulfur and burn it.