7. His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.
8. The Lord has sent out a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel.
9. And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,
10. “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone. The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
11. So Yahweh strengthened the adversaries of Rezin against him, and he provoked his enemies—
12. Aram from the east and Philistines from the west— and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out.