¹²When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will punish the king of Assyria for all his boasting and all his arrogance. ¹³The king will say,

“I did this with my own two powerful hands.

I did this with my wisdom, because I am so clever.

I’ve eliminated the boundaries of nations.

I’ve looted treasuries.

I’ve brought down people like a mighty man.

¹⁴I’ve found the riches of nations as one finds a nest.

I’ve gathered the whole world as one gathers abandoned eggs.

Not one of them flapped a wing, opened its mouth, or peeped.”

¹⁵Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it?

Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it?

A rod cannot move the person who lifts it.

A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.

¹⁶That is why the Almighty Lord of Armies

will send a degenerative disease against brave men.

A flame will be turned into a raging fire under his power.

¹⁷Israel’s light will become a flame.

Its Holy One will become a fire.

He will burn up and devour the weeds and thornbushes in one day.

¹⁸The majestic forest and the orchard

will destroy both body and soul.

They will be like a sick person wasting away.

¹⁹The trees that remain in the forest will be so few that

a child could count them.

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