Isaiah 30:27–33

ANNIHILATION OF THE ASSYRIANS

²⁷Look! The name of the Lord

his anger burning and heavy with smoke.^A

His lips are full of fury,

and his tongue is like a consuming fire.

²⁸His breath is like an overflowing torrent^k

that rises to the neck.^l

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.^m

²⁹Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the Lord,

to the Rock of Israel.ⁿ

³⁰And the Lord will make the splendor of his voice heard

and reveal his arm^o striking in angry wrath

and a flame of consuming fire,

in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.

³¹Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the Lord.

He will strike with a rod.

³²And every stroke of the appointed^B staff

that the Lord brings down on him

will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres;

he will fight against him with brandished weapons.

³³Indeed! Topheth has been ready^p

for the king for a long time.

Its funeral pyre is deep and wide,

with plenty of fire and wood.

The breath of the Lord,^q like a torrent of burning sulfur,

kindles it.