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Adonai will make his glorious voice heard, and he will reveal his arm descending with furious anger in a flaming firestorm, with cloudbursts, tempests and hailstones.

For Adonai 's voice will terrify Ashur, as with his scepter he strikes them down.

Every sweep of the punishing rod that Adonai imposes on him will be to tambourines and lyres, as he brandishes his arm against them in battle.

But he too is wise and can bring disaster, and he does not take back his words; he will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who do wrong.

Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit. So when Adonai stretches out his hand, both he who helps will stumble, and he who is helped will fall; both will perish together.

For on that day everyone will discard his idols of silver and idols of gold, which you made for yourselves with your own sinful hands.

Then Ashur will fall by a sword not of mortals, a sword, not of humans, will devour him; he will flee before the sword, and his young men will be put to forced labor.

His rock, out of terror, will pass away, and his panicked officers will desert the standard." So says Adonai , whose fire is in Tziyon, whose furnace is in Yerushalayim.

for the mean person will speak meanness, his heart planning evil, so that he can act godlessly, spreading error concerning Adonai , as he lets the hungry go on starving and deprives the thirsty of drink.

But the generous person devises generous things, and his generosity will keep him standing.

He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge, and fear of Adonai , which is his treasure.

He whose life is right and whose speech is straight, he who scorns getting rich by extortion, he who shakes his hands free of bribes, stops his ears against talk of bloodshed and shuts his eyes against looking at evil.

Such a person will live on the heights, his refuge a fortress among the cliffs, his food and water in steady supply.

Your eyes will see the king in his beauty, they will gaze on a land stretching into the distance.

But there in his splendor Adonai will be with us, in a place of rivers and broad streams. But no boat with oars will go there, no majestic ship will pass by.

Consult the book of Adonai and read it: not one of these will be missing, none will be lacking a mate. For by his own mouth he gave the order, and by his Spirit he brought them together.

It is he who cast the lot for them, his hand measured out their shares. They will possess it forever, and live there through all generations.

Look! Relying on Egypt is like using a broken stick as a staff — when you lean on it, it punctures your hand. That's what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for anyone who puts his trust in him.

Don't listen to Hizkiyahu.' For this is what the king says: ‘Make peace with me, surrender to me. Then every one of you can eat from his vine and fig tree and drink the water in his own cistern,

Beware of Hizkiyahu; he is only deluding you when he says, " Adonai will save us." Has any god of any nation ever saved his land from the power of the king of Ashur?