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And I will wait for Yahweh who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will hope for Him.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;And the government will rest on His shoulders;And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace,On the throne of David and over his kingdom,To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousnessFrom then on and forevermore.The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will accomplish this.

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back,And His hand is still stretched out.

Therefore the Lord is not glad in their choice men,Nor does He have compassion on their orphans or their widows;For every one of them is godless and an evildoer,And every mouth is speaking wicked foolishness.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back,And His hand is still stretched out.

By the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is burned up,And the people are like fuel for the fire;No man spares his brother.

They slice off what is on the right hand but still are hungry,And they eat what is on the left hand but they are not satisfied;Each of them eats the flesh of his own arm.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,And together they are against Judah.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back,And His hand is still stretched out.

Nothing remains but to crouch among the captivesOr fall among those killed.In spite of all this, His anger does not turn backAnd His hand is still stretched out.

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his eyes which are raised high."

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

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 briars in a single day.

And He will bring to an end the glory of his forest and of his fruitful orchard, both soul and body,And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in numberThat a child could write them down.

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh of hosts, "O My people who inhabit Zion, do not fear the Assyrian who strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did.

And Yahweh of hosts will waken a scourge against him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.

He has come against Aiath,He has passed through Migron;At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

Yet today he will stand at Nob;He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.