14. My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest,as one gathers up abandoned eggs,I gathered up the whole earth.There was no wing flapping,or open mouth chirping.”
15. Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it,or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it?As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it,or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
16. For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
17. The light of Israel will become a fire,their Holy One will become a flame;it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s briersand his thorns in one day.
18. The splendor of his forest and his orchardwill be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.
19. There will be so few trees left in his forest,a child will be able to count them.
20. At that time those left in Israel, those who remain of the family of Jacob, will no longer rely on a foreign leader that abuses them. Instead they will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
21. A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.