22. For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
23. For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.
24. Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.
25. For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction."
26. The Lord of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.
27. So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
28. He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.
29. They have gone through the pass, saying, "Geba will be our lodging place." Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.
30. Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
31. Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.
32. Yet today he will halt at Nob; He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33. Behold, the Lord, the God of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those also who are tall in stature will be cut down And those who are lofty will be abased.
34. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.