2 And He also [is] wise, and bringeth in evil, And His words He hath not turned aside, And He hath risen against a house of evil doers, And against the help of workers of iniquity.
3 And the Egyptians [are men], and not God, And their horses [are] flesh, and not spirit, And Jehovah stretcheth out His hand, And stumbled hath the helper, And fallen hath the helped one, And together all of them are consumed.
4 For thus said Jehovah unto me: `As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.
5 As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.’
6 Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostacy.
7 For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you – a sin.
8 And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword – not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.
9 And [to] his rock from fear he passeth on, And affrighted by the ensign have been his princes – an affirmation of Jehovah, Who hath a light in Zion, And who hath a furnace in Jerusalem!