Isaiah 31:4-9

English Standard Version

⁴For 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.
⁵^(C)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”

⁶^(D)Turn to him from whom people^[b] have ^(E)deeply revolted, O children of Israel. ⁷For 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.

⁸^(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.
⁹^(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.