Isaiah 30:27–33

Judgment against Assyria

²⁷Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar,

burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud.

His lips are full of indignation,

and his tongue is like a devouring fire.

²⁸And his breath is like an overflowing river;

it reaches up to the neck

to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness;

and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples.

²⁹You shall have a song^g as in the night when a holy festival is kept,

and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute,

to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.

³⁰And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard,

and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen,

in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire,

with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones^h of hail.

³¹Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh;

he strikes with the rod.

³²And every stroke of the staff of foundationⁱ that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres,

and he will fight against it^j with battles of brandishing.

³³For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday;

indeed, it is made ready for the king.

He makes its pile of wood deep and wide;

he makes fire and wood abundant.^k

The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.