Isaiah 31
1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD!
2 Yet he too is wise, and he brings disaster; he does not take back his words. He rises against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who do wrong.
3 Egypt is human, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall; they will all perish together.
4 For this is what the LORD said to me: “As a lion, a young lion, growls over its prey, and though a band of shepherds gathers against it, it is not frightened by their shouting or cowed by their uproar, so the LORD of Hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and its hill.
5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, spare it and rescue it.”
6 Return to the one against whom you have rebelled so deeply, people of Israel.
7 For on that day each of you will reject the silver idols and gold idols your own hands made for you—a sin.
8 Assyria will fall by a sword that is not wielded by a man, and a sword that is not human will devour it. It will flee from the sword, and its young men will be put to forced labor.
9 Its rock will pass away in terror, and its officers will be frightened at the sight of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
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