14. And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp.”
15. Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro? As if a rod should move the one who lifts it! As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood!
16. Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.
17. And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
18. And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard completely, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.
19. And the rest of the trees of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.
20. And this shall happen: on that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean on the one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth.
21. A remnant will return— the remnant of Jacob—to the mighty God.
22. For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return. Annihilation is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
23. For the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts: “My people who live in Zion, you must not be afraid of Assyria. It beats you with the rod, and it lifts up its staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25. My indignation will come to an end in just a very little while, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.”
26. And Yahweh of hosts is going to swing a whip against him, as when Midian was defeated at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift him up as he did in Egypt.
27. And this shall happen: on that day, he will remove his burden from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, and a yoke will be destroyed because of fat.
28. He has come to Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Micmash he deposited his baggage.
29. They crossed over the pass; Geba is a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30. Daughter of Gallim, cry out with your voice; Laishah, listen! Anathoth is poor.