King James Version

1 Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees and the writers who jot down oppression. 2 To pervert justice for the poor and to rob the judgment of the needy of my people, so that widows may be their prey, and they may plunder the orphans. 3 And what will you do for the day of reckoning, and for destruction that comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your glory? 4 Except for kneeling under captivity and under those who are slain, through all this His anger did not turn back, and His hand is still stretched out. 5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger, and the staff in their hand is My fury. 6 In a deceitful nation, I will send you, and upon my rebellious people I will command you to plunder spoil and to loot, and to set them as ruin like the clay of the streets. 7 And he will not think in that way, and his heart will not consider in that manner, because to destroy in his heart and to exterminate nations is not a small matter. 8 For he will say, "Surely kings do not rule together." 9 Is not like Karkemish like Calno? Is it not like Arpad, like Hamath? Is it not like Damascus, like Samaria? 10 As I found the hands of the gods and their idols from Jerusalem and from Samaria. 11 "Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I did to Samaria and her idols?" 12 And it shall be that when my lord performs all his deeds on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit upon the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the king of Assyria and upon the glory of the height of my eyes. 13 For I said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am clever; and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and their future plans I will spoil, and I will bring down the mighty ones sitting." 14 And you found, like a nest, my hand for the might of the peoples, and like a gathering of abandoned eggs, all the earth I have gathered, and there was no wandering wing, and no opening mouth, and no chirping. 15 Does the axe boast against the one who chops with it, or does the saw magnify itself against the one who saws with it? As if a staff should wield those who lift it; as if a rod should lift what is not wood. 16 Therefore, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send in my fatness a secret, and under His glory a fire will be kindled like a burning fire. 17 And it shall be a light for Israel like a fire, and its Holy One like a flame; and it shall burn and consume its thorns and its briers in one day. 18 And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field shall be consumed from soul to flesh, and it shall be like the wasting away of a tatter. 19 And the rest of the wood of the forest will be in number, and a boy will write them. 20 And it will be on that day that Israel will no longer rely on what strikes him, and the remnant of the house of Jacob will rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God. 22 For if your people Israel will be like the sand of the sea, a remnant will return in it; destruction is decreed overflowing with righteousness. 23 For all is finished and determined by my Lord, the LORD of hosts, who acts in the midst of all the earth. 24 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Do not be afraid, My people who dwell in Zion, of Assyria when he strikes with a rod and lifts up his staff against you on the way of Egypt. 25 For yet a little while, and the fury will cease, and my anger will be directed against your destruction. 26 And the Lord of hosts stirred against me a whip like the blow of Midian in the rock of Oreb, and His staff upon the sea, and He lifted it in the way of Egypt. 27 And it shall be in that day that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 28 He came upon the ruin of an expression, as he appointed his vessels to/from the hiding place. 29 They crossed the ford at Gibeah; the lodging place was there; and the terror at Ramah; it was fled from Gibeat of Saul. 30 "Rejoice, your voice, daughter of the waves; listen to the poor woman, answer her." 31 The inhabitants of the hills have become bold. 32 Still today in Nob, he will wave his hand over the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 33 Behold, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will shake the fastnesses of the earth, and the lofty heights will be brought low, and the high ones will fall. 34 And the thickets of the forest will be hewn down with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the mighty.