1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;⇆ compare2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!⇆ compare3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?⇆ compare4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.⇆ compare5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.⇆ compare6I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.⇆ compare7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.⇆ compare8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?⇆ compare9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?⇆ compare10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;⇆ compare11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?⇆ compare12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.⇆ compare13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:⇆ compare14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.⇆ compare15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.⇆ compare16Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.⇆ compare17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;⇆ compare18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.⇆ compare19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.⇆ compare20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.⇆ compare21The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.⇆ compare22For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.⇆ compare23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.⇆ compare24Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.⇆ compare25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.⇆ compare26And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.⇆ compare27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.⇆ compare28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:⇆ compare29They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.⇆ compare30Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.⇆ compare31Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.⇆ compare32As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.⇆ compare33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.⇆ compare34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.⇆ compare