Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon your honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon your glory.

Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low;

and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and Lebanon shall fall with his lofty ones.

[even] to destroy the Assyrians upon My land, and upon My mountains; and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.

For You have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty; You shall deliver them from wicked men; [You have been] a shelter for them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

[We were] as faint-hearted men thirsting in Zion, by reason of ungodly men to whom You delivered us.

In that day God shall bring [His] holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; He shall destroy the dragon.

And the Lord shall make His glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of His outstretched arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame; He shall lighten terribly, and [His wrath shall be] as water and violent hail.

And it shall happen to him from every side, [that] they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against Him in turn with drums and with harps.

And the Assyrian shall fall; not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword; but the young men shall be overthrown;

for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be overcome; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Zion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

Woe to those that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable; and he that deals treacherously with you does not deal treacherously; those that deal treacherously shall be taken and given up, and like a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

By reason of the terrible sound, the nations were dismayed for fear of You, and the heathen were scattered.

The land mourns; Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon has become a marsh; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Carmel.

Now shall you see, now shall you perceive; the strength of your breath shall be vain; fire shall devour you.

And your wrath in which you have been enraged, and your rage has come up before Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.

And they that are left in Judah shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward;

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart around it.

I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David's sake.

And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineveh.

You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; You have blotted out their name forever, even forever and ever.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her with His countenance.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

Putting an end to wars as to the ends of the earth; He will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

And I said to it, To this point you shall come, but you shall not go beyond, but your waves shall be confined within you.

And having awakened He rebuked the wind, and He said to the sea, "Be quiet, be muzzled!" And the wind abated and there was a great calm.

And they feared exceedingly, and were saying to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"

But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress you as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make [them] as chaff;

and you shall winnow [them], and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

Not so [for] the ungodly- not so; but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

O my God, make them as a wheel, as stubble before the face of the wind.

so shall You persecute them with Your tempest, and trouble them in Your anger.

Then once for all the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold were ground into powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshing floor. And the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone which had struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.