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1Woe to those who make iniquitous decrees,[#Ps 94.20]
who write oppressive statutes,
2to turn aside the needy from justice[#Isa 1.23; 5.23]
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
to make widows their spoil
and to plunder orphans!
3What will you do on the day of punishment,[#Job 31.14; Isa 5.26; 20.6; Hos 9.7; Lk 19.44]
in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth,
4so as not to crouch among the prisoners[#Isa 5.25; 22.2; 24.22]
or fall among the slain?
For all this his anger has not turned away;
his hand is stretched out still.
5Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger—[#Jer 51.20]
the club in their hands is my fury!
6Against a godless nation I send him,[#Isa 5.25, 29; 9.17, 19; Jer 34.22]
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7But this is not what he intends,[#Gen 50.20]
nor does he have this in mind,
but it is in his heart to destroy
and to cut off nations not a few.
8For he says:[#2 Kings 18.24, 34; 19.10]
“Are not my commanders all kings?
9Is not Calno like Carchemish?[#2 Kings 16.9; 2 Chr 35.20; Am 6.2]
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols[#2 Kings 19.17, 18]
whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols
what I have done to Samaria and her images?”
12When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.[#2 Kings 19.31; Isa 37.23; Jer 50.18; #10.12 Gk: Heb I]
13For he says:[#Isa 37.24; Ezek 28.4; Dan 4.30]
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples
and have plundered their treasures;
like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
14My hand has found, like a nest,[#Job 31.25]
the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened its mouth or chirped.”
15Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it[#v 5 ; Jer 51.20; Rom 9.20, 21]
or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!
16Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,[#v 18 ; Ps 106.15; Isa 17.4]
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled
like the burning of fire.
17The light of Israel will become a fire[#Isa 27.4; 30.33; 37.23]
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.
18The glory of his forest and his fruitful land[#Jer 21.14]
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when an invalid wastes away.
19The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few[#Isa 21.17]
that a child can write them down.
20On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them but will lean on the Lord , the Holy One of Israel, in truth.[#2 Kings 16.7; 2 Chr 28.20; Isa 17.7, 8]
21A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.[#Isa 6.13; 9.6]
22For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.[#Isa 28.22; Rom 9.27, 28]
23For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in all the earth.[#Dan 9.27; #10.23 Or land]
24Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they beat you with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.”[#v 5; Isa 17.14]
26The Lord of hosts will wield a whip against them, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.[#Ex 14.16, 27; Judg 7.25; Isa 37.36–38]
27On that day his burden will be removed from your shoulder, and his yoke will be destroyed from your neck.[#Isa 9.4; 30.23]
He has gone up from Samaria;
28he has come to Aiath;[#1 Sam 13.2, 5; 14.2; 17.22]
he has passed through Migron;
at Michmash he stores his baggage;
29they have crossed over the pass;[#Josh 18.25; 21.17; 1 Sam 10.26]
at Geba they lodge for the night;
Ramah trembles;
Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30Cry aloud, O daughter Gallim![#Josh 21.18; 1 Sam 25.44]
Listen, O Laishah!
Answer her, O Anathoth!
31Madmenah is in flight;[#Josh 15.31]
the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
32This very day he will halt at Nob;[#1 Sam 21.1; Neh 11.32; Isa 13.2; 37.22]
he will shake his fist
at the mount of daughter Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
33Look, the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,[#Am 2.9]
will lop the boughs with terrifying power;
the tallest trees will be cut down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34He will hack down the thickets of the forest with an ax,
and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.