25 For (A)in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.

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36 “And the king shall (A)do as he wills. (B)He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, (C)and shall speak astonishing things against (D)the God of gods. (E)He shall prosper (F)till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.

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37 For,

(A)“Yet a little while,
    and (B)the coming one will come and will not delay;

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35 And that night (A)the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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(A)For a brief moment I deserted you,
    but with great compassion I will gather you.

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36 (A)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at (B)Nineveh. 38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of (C)Ararat, (D)Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

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For thus the Lord said to me,
(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
(C)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”

(D)Turn to him from whom people[b] have (E)deeply revolted, O children of Israel. For in that day (F)everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

(G)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be (H)put to forced labor.
(I)His rock shall pass away in terror,
    and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose (J)fire is in Zion,
    and whose (K)furnace is in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:4 The Hebrew words for hosts and to fight sound alike
  2. Isaiah 31:6 Hebrew they

30 And the Lord (A)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (B)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (C)and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, (D)when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them (E)will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. (F)Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For (G)a burning place[a] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, (H)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; (I)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:33 Or For Topheth

12 Ah, (A)the thunder of many peoples;
    they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
    they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 (B)The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
    (C)but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased (D)like chaff on the mountains before the wind
    and (E)whirling dust before the storm.
14 (F)At evening time, behold, terror!
    Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    and the lot of those who plunder us.

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An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(A)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,
25 that (B)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (C)his yoke shall depart from them,
    and (D)his burden from their shoulder.”

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The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You[a] will say (A)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
    for though you were angry with me,
(B)your anger turned away,
    that you might comfort me.

“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (C)the Lord God[b] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1
  2. Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord

33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
    (A)will lop (B)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
    and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down (C)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
    and (D)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

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Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!

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10 In (A)just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
    though you look carefully at (B)his place, he will not be there.

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