¹²And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion^g and Jerusalem, “I will punish the arrogance^h of the king of Assyria and his haughtiness.”ⁱ

¹³For he says,

“I have done it by the strength of my hand

and by my wisdom, for I have understanding,

and I have removed the boundaries of peoples,

and I have plundered their stores,

and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants.^j

¹⁴And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples,

and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth.

And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp.”

¹⁵Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it,

or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro?

As if a rod should move the one who lifts it!^k

As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood!^l

¹⁶Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors,

and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.

¹⁷And the light of Israel will become like a fire,

and his holy one like a flame,

and it will burn and devour his thorns^m and briersⁿ in one day.

¹⁸And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard completely,^o

and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.

¹⁹And the rest of the trees^p of his forest will be a small number,

and a boy can write them down.

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Footnotes

gLiterally “the mountain of Zion”
hLiterally “fruit of the greatness of the heart”
iLiterally “the pride of the height of his eyes”
jOr, “those sitting,” that is, rulers sitting on thrones
kLiterally “As a rod waving even the one who lifts it up”
lLiterally “As a staff lifting up not wood”
mHebrew “thorn”
nHebrew “brier”
oLiterally “from soul and to body”
pHebrew “tree”