²⁴ Therefore this is what the Lord ^[a]God of armies says: “My people, you who dwell in ^(A)Zion, ^(B)do not fear the Assyrian ^[b]who ^(C)strikes you with the rod, and lifts up his staff against you the way Egypt did. ²⁵ For in a very ^(D)little while ^(E)My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.” ²⁶ The Lord of armies will ^(F)wield a whip against him like the defeat of ^(G)Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His ^(H)staff will be over the sea, and He will lift it up ^(I)the way He did in Egypt.

²² “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of armies, “and eliminate from Babylon ^(A)name and survivors, ^(B)offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord. ²³ “I will also make it the property of the ^(C)hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of ^(D)destruction,” declares the Lord of armies.

¹⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I ^(A)punished the king of Assyria.