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Het ‘zwaard van God’ zal toeslaan

31 Wee hen die naar Egypte gaan om hulp, die vertrouwen op paarden, strijdwagens en machtige ruiters in plaats van op de Heilige van Israël en Hem niet om raad vragen. In zijn wijsheid brengt Hij een groot kwaad over zijn volk en Hij verandert niet van gedachten. Hij keert Zich tegen zijn volk om hun slechtheid en tegen ieder die hun helpt.

Want deze Egyptenaren zijn slechts mensen, geen God! Hun paarden zijn van vlees, geen machtige geesten! Als de Here zijn vuist tegen hen balt, zullen zij struikelen en vallen, samen met degenen die zij wilden helpen. Zij zullen allen te gronde worden gericht.

4,5 Maar de Here heeft mij dit gezegd: als een leeuw, zelfs al is hij nog maar jong, een schaap doodt, schenkt hij geen aandacht aan het geschreeuw en lawaai van de herder. Hij gaat zijn gang en eet van zijn prooi. Zo zal de Here ook doen als Hij komt om op de berg Sion te strijden. Niemand zal Hem kunnen afschrikken! Hij, de Here van de hemelse legers, zal over Jeruzalem waken als vogels die rond hun nest wieken. Hij zal de stad verdedigen en haar verlossen.

Daarom, mijn volk, keer terug naar Hem van wie u zo ver bent afgedwaald. Ik weet dat de dag zal komen dat ieder van u zijn gouden en zilveren afgodsbeelden zal weggooien die u in uw zondigheid hebt gemaakt. Dan zullen de Assyriërs worden vernietigd, maar niet door zwaarden van mensen. Het ‘zwaard van God’ zal hen verslaan. Zij zullen in paniek op de vlucht slaan. De sterke, jonge Assyriërs zullen worden weggeleid als slaven. Zelfs hun aanvoerders zullen beven van schrik en op de vlucht slaan wanneer zij de oorlogsvaandels van Israël zien, zegt de Here. Want de vlam van God brandt helder in Jeruzalem.

31 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

¶ Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

31 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.