⁹ “‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows,^(A) the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.^{(B) 10} They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder^(C) those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(D)

³ Then I will strike your bow^(A) from your left hand and make your arrows^(B) drop from your right hand. ⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds^(C) and to the wild animals.^(D)

³⁶ Then the angel^(D) of the Lord went out and put to death^(E) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian^(F) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!