Isaiah 30:27–33

Judgment on Assyria

²⁷Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,

Burning with His anger,

And His burden is heavy;

His lips are full of indignation,

And His tongue like a devouring fire.

^28kHis breath is like an overflowing stream,

^lWhich reaches up to the neck,

To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;

And there shall be ^ma bridle in the jaws of the people,

Causing them to err.

²⁹You shall have a song

As in the night when a holy festival is kept,

And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute,

To come into ⁿthe mountain of the Lord,

To ⁸the Mighty One of Israel.

^30oThe Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard,

And show the descent of His arm,

With the indignation of His anger

And the flame of a devouring fire,

With scattering, tempest, ^pand hailstones.

³¹For ^qthrough the voice of the Lord

Assyria will be ⁹beaten down,

As He strikes with the ^rrod.

³²And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,

Which the Lord lays on him,

It will be with tambourines and harps;

And in battles of ^sbrandishing He will fight with it.

^33tFor Tophet was established of old,

Yes, for the king it is prepared.

He has made it deep and large;

Its pyre is fire with much wood;

The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,

Kindles it.