4 For Yahweh said this to me:

“As which a lion growls

and a young lion over its prey

when ⌊a full group⌋b of shepherds is called against him,

it is not terrified by their voice,

and to their noise it does not respond,

so Yahweh of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion

and upon its hill.

5 Like birds flying overhead, so Yahweh of hosts will protect Jerusalem;

he will protect and deliver it;

he will pass over and rescue it.

6 Turn back to the one against whom the sons of Israel have made deep rebellion.

7 For on that day, each one will reject his idols of silver

and his idols of gold which your hands have made in sin for you.

8 And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of a man,

and a sword not of a human shall devour him;

and he shall flee from the sword,

and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

9 And his rock will pass over because of terror,

and his officers will be terrified because of the flag,”

⌊declares⌋c Yahweh,

who has a fire in Zion

and has a furnace in Jerusalem.