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Then I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom can I send? Who will go for us?" So I said, "Here I am. Send me!"

So I, the Lord, will bring the king of Assyria and all his power against them, like a powerful flood of water from the Euphrates River. The Assyrians will be like water rising over the banks of the river, flowing over the land.

You should follow the teachings and the agreement with the Lord . The mediums and fortune-tellers do not speak the word of the Lord , so their words are worth nothing.

So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, taking away both the branch and stalk in one day.

So the Lord is not happy with the young people, nor will he show mercy to the orphans and widows. All the people are separated from God and are very evil; they all speak lies. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

The Lord All-Powerful is angry, so the land will be burned. The people are like fuel for the fire; no one will try to save his brother or sister.

I send it to fight against a nation that is separated from God. I am angry with those people, so I command Assyria to fight against them, to take their wealth from them, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

When the Lord finishes doing what he planned to Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish Assyria. The king of Assyria is very proud, and his pride has made him do these evil things, so God will punish him.

So the Lord God All-Powerful will send a terrible disease upon Assyria's soldiers. The strength of Assyria will be burned up like a fire burning until everything is gone.

The trees left standing will be so few that even a child could count them.

A new branch will grow from a stump of a tree; so a new king will come from the family of Jesse.

The Lord will dry up the Red Sea of Egypt. He will wave his arm over the Euphrates River and dry it up with a scorching wind. He will divide it into seven small rivers so that people can walk across them with their sandals on.

So God's people who are left alive will have a way to leave Assyria, just like the time the Israelites came out of Egypt.

Even the pine trees are happy, and the cedar trees of Lebanon rejoice. They say, "The king has fallen, so no one will ever cut us down again."

So the people gather up what they have saved and carry it across the Ravine of the Poplars.

So the people of Moab will cry; they will all be sad. They will moan and groan for the raisin cakes they had in Kir Hareseth.

At night the people will be very frightened. Before morning, no one will be left. So our enemies will come to our land, but they will become nothing.

The officers of Zoan have been fooled; the leaders of Memphis have believed false things. So the leaders of Egypt lead that nation the wrong way.

So the Lord will show himself to the Egyptians, and then they will know he is the Lord . They will worship God and offer many sacrifices. They will make promises to the Lord and will keep them.

Sargon king of Assyria sent a military commander to Ashdod to attack that city. So the commander attacked and captured it.