²⁵ Very soon^(A) my anger against you will end
    and my wrath^(B) will be directed to their destruction.^(C)”

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming^(A) will come
    and will not delay.”^[a](B)

⁷ “For a brief moment^(A) I abandoned^(B) you,
    but with deep compassion^(C) I will bring you back.^(D)

“As a lion^(A) growls,
    a great lion over its prey—
and though a whole band of shepherds^(B)
    is called together against it,
it is not frightened by their shouts
    or disturbed by their clamor^(C)—
so the Lord Almighty will come down^(D)
    to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
⁵ Like birds hovering^(E) overhead,
    the Lord Almighty will shield^(F) Jerusalem;
he will shield it and deliver^(G) it,
    he will ‘pass over’^(H) it and will rescue it.”

⁸ “Assyria^(N) will fall by no human sword;
    a sword, not of mortals, will devour^(O) them.
They will flee before the sword
    and their young men will be put to forced labor.^(P)
9 Their stronghold^(Q) will fall because of terror;
    at the sight of the battle standard^(R) their commanders will panic,^(S)”
declares the Lord,
    whose fire^(T) is in Zion,
    whose furnace^(U) is in Jerusalem.

³⁰ The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice^(A)
    and will make them see his arm^(B) coming down
with raging anger^(C) and consuming fire,^(D)
    with cloudburst, thunderstorm^(E) and hail.^(F)
31 The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria;^(G)
    with his rod he will strike^(H) them down.
³² Every stroke the Lord lays on them
    with his punishing club^(I)
will be to the music of timbrels^(J) and harps,
    as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.^(K)
33 Topheth^(L) has long been prepared;
    it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
    with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath^(M) of the Lord,
    like a stream of burning sulfur,^(N)
    sets it ablaze.^(O)

¹² Woe to the many nations that rage^(A)—
    they rage like the raging sea!^(B)
Woe to the peoples who roar^(C)—
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!^(D)
13 Although the peoples roar^(E) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(F) them they flee^(G) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(H) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(I)
14 In the evening, sudden^(J) terror!^(K)
    Before the morning, they are gone!^(L)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.