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So the Lord Jehovah of Hosts says this: Oh My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria. He shall strike you with the rod, and he shall lift up his staff against you in the way of Egypt.

But yet a little while, and the fury is finished; and My anger shall be over their destruction.

And Jehovah of Hosts shall stir up a whip on him, according to the striking of Midian at the rock Oreb; and as His rod was on the sea, and He lifted it up in the way of Egypt.

And it shall be in that day, his burden shall turn away from on your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

He has come to Aiath; he has passed to Migron; he has left his baggage at Michmash.

They have crossed the ford; they have bedded down at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Shriek with your voice, daughter of ruins; bow, Laish, afflicted of Anathoth.

Madmenah wanders; those living in Gebim take refuge.

Yet he remains in Nob today; he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall lop the bough of terror! And the lofty ones shall be cut down, and the proud shall be humbled.

And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.