15 Does an ax exalt itself

above the one who chops with it?

Does a saw magnify itself

above the one who saws with it?

It would be like a rod waving the one who liftsD it!

It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!

16 Therefore the Lord God of Armies

will inflict an emaciating disease

on the well-fed of Assyria,

and he will kindle a burning fire

under its glory.

17 Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.i

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.j

18 He will completely destroy

the glory of its forests and orchards

as a sickness consumes a person.

19 The remaining trees of its forest

will be so few in number

that a child could count them.