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Therefore Adonai Elohim -Tzva'ot says: "My people living in Tziyon, don't be afraid of Ashur, even when he strikes you with a stick and raises his staff against you, the way it was in Egypt.

Adonai -Tzva'ot will wield a whip against them, as he did when striking Midyan at the Rock of ‘Orev; as his staff was over the sea, he will raise it, the way it was in Egypt.

On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck; the yoke will be destroyed by your prosperity.

He has come to ‘Ayat and passed through Migron. He has stored his equipment at Mikhmas.

This very day he will stop at Nov; and he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon, at the hill of Yerushalayim.

But a branch will emerge from the trunk of Yishai, a shoot will grow from his roots.

he will be inspired by fearing Adonai . He will not judge by what his eyes see or decide by what his ears hear,

but he will judge the impoverished justly; he will decide fairly for the humble of the land. He will strike the land with a rod from his mouth and slay the wicked with a breath from his lips.

Justice will be the belt around his waist, faithfulness the sash around his hips.

An infant will play on a cobra's hole, a toddler put his hand in a viper's nest.

On that day Adonai will raise his hand again, a second time, to reclaim the remnant of his people who remain from Ashur, Egypt, Patros, Ethiopia, ‘Eilam, Shin‘ar, Hamat and the islands in the sea.

Adonai will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian Sea. He will shake his hand over the [Euphrates] River to bring a scorching wind, dividing it into seven streams and enabling people to cross dryshod.

There will be a highway for the remnant of his people who are still left from Ashur, just as there was for Isra'el when he came out from the land of Egypt.

On that day you will say, "Give thanks to Adonai ! Call on his name! Make his deeds known among the peoples, declare how exalted is his name.

Shout and sing for joy, you who live in Tziyon; for the Holy One of Isra'el is with you in his greatness!"

They come from a distant land, from beyond the horizon. It's Adonai , with the weapons of his rage, to lay waste to all the earth.

This is why I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of Adonai -Tzva'ot on the day of his fierce anger.

Then, like a hunted gazelle, like sheep with no one to gather them, everyone will head back to his own people; everyone will flee to his own land.

you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Bavel: "At last the oppressor is stilled, his arrogance is ended!

who made the world a desert, who destroyed its cities, who would not set his prisoners free?'