1 GLT Woe, lawmakers of useless laws and writers writing perverseness. BSB BSB: Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
2 GLT suppressing the rights of the needy, and robbing the justice of the poor of my people,{ making} widows become plunder, and preying{ on} the fatherless! BSB BSB: to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
3 GLT And what will you do for the day of judgment, and for the destruction coming from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? BSB BSB: What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
4 GLT Only, they will crouch among the prisoners, or fall among the killed. In all these things, his nose does not turn back, and his hand is still stretched out. BSB BSB: Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
5 GLT Woe, Assyria, the club of my nose, and a rod is in their hand{ for} my fury! BSB BSB: Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
6 GLT I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people of my wrath. I order him to plunder the plunder and to prey on the prey, and to trample them, trodden like mud of the streets. BSB BSB: I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
7 GLT And he does not think so, and his heart does not consider thus, for, to destroy{ is} in his heart, and to eliminate not a few nations. BSB BSB: But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
8 GLT For he says,“{ Are} not all my princes kings? BSB BSB: “Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
9 GLT { Is} not Kalno like Carchemish? Surely Hamath{ is} not like Arpad? Surely Samaria{ is} not like Damascus? BSB BSB: “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10 GLT As my hand has reached idolatrous kingdoms, and their carved figures{ were} greater than Jerusalem and greater than Samaria, BSB BSB: As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 GLT just as I did to Samaria and her vanities, shall I not do so to Jerusalem and to her idols?” BSB BSB: and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
12 GLT And it will happen, when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and against Jerusalem,“I shall reckon with the fruit of the magnitude of the heart of the king of Assyria and the pride of the haughtiness of his eyes.” BSB BSB: So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
13 GLT For he says:“‘By my strength and by my hand I acted, and{ it is} in my wisdom, for I was discerning. But I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and I have stolen their treasures, and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants. BSB BSB: For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
14 GLT And my hand has seized, as{ from} a nest the wealth of the nations, and as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth, and none was fluttering a wing or opening a mouth or chirping.’” BSB BSB: My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
15 GLT Will the ax glorify itself against the one who swings it? Will the saw praise itself over him who wields it? As a rod could wield those who raise it! As a club could lift up{ what is} not wood! BSB BSB: Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
16 GLT Therefore, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will send thinness among his fattened ones and instead of his glory, a burning will rage, like the burning of fire. BSB BSB: Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
17 GLT And the light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. BSB BSB: And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18 GLT And the glory of his forest and his fruitful land, he will consume from spirit and to flesh, and it will be like the wasting away of the frail. BSB BSB: The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
19 GLT And the remnant of the trees of his forest will be a number that a child could count. BSB BSB: The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
20 GLT And it will happen on that day, the remnant of Israel and the refugees of the house of Jacob will not continue anymore to rely on its afflicter, but will indeed rely on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel. BSB BSB: On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
21 GLT A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. BSB BSB: A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.
22 GLT For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the seashore, a remnant of it will return. Decreed destruction flows down, righteousness. BSB BSB: Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
23 GLT For{ it is} finished and decreed: the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to carry{ it} out throughout all the land. BSB BSB: For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
24 GLT Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts,“My people who live{ in} Zion, do not fear the Assyrian. He will strike you with the rod and raise his staff against you in the way of Egypt BSB BSB: Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
25 GLT for just a very little{ time}; then the fury and my nose will end on account of their destruction.” BSB BSB: For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
26 GLT And Yahweh of hosts will wield a whip against it, as the smiting of Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his rod{ will be} over the sea, and he will lift it up in the way of Egypt. BSB BSB: And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
27 GLT And it will happen on that day, his burden{ will be} lifted from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be destroyed from the face of fatness. BSB BSB: On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
28 GLT He has come to Aiath, passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his provisions. BSB BSB: Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
29 GLT They have crossed over the pass; Geba{ is} his lodging. Ramah trembles, Gibeah of Saul flees. BSB BSB: They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
30 GLT Lift up your voice, daughter of Gallim! Give attention, Laishah, poor of Anathoth! BSB BSB: Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
31 GLT Madmenah flees, the inhabitants of Gebim take refuge. BSB BSB: Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.
32 GLT Yet, today he will stand at Nob wave his hand{ against} the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. BSB BSB: Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 GLT Behold, the Lord Yahweh of hosts will cut off the foliage with a crash, and the tallest of the tall{ will be} cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. BSB BSB: Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
34 GLT And he will chop down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon will fall with force. BSB BSB: He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
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