| New International Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, | 1Woe to those enacting crooked statutes and writing oppressive laws |
| 2to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. | 2to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless. |
| 3What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? | 3What will you do on the day of punishment when devastation comes from far away? Who will you run to for help? Where will you leave your wealth? |
| 4Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised. | 4There will be nothing to do except crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. In all this, His anger is not removed, and His hand is still raised to strike. |
| 5"Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath! | 5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger-- the staff in their hands is My wrath. |
| 6I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. | 6I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. |
| 7But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations. | 7But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. It is his intent to destroy and to cut off many nations. |
| 8Are not my commanders all kings?' he says. | 8For he says," Aren't all my commanders kings? |
| 9Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus? | 9Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus? |
| 10As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria-- | 10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, |
| 11shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?'" | 11and as I did to Samaria and its idols will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?" |
| 12When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. | 12But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, "I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes." |
| 13For he says: "'By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings. | 13For he said: I have done this by my own strength and wisdom, for I am clever. I abolished the borders of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants. |
| 14As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.'" | 14My hand has reached out, as if into a nest, to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered the whole earth. No wing fluttered; no beak opened or chirped. |
| 15Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood! | 15Does an ax exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts it! It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn't wood! |
| 16Therefore, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame. | 16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will inflict an emaciating disease on the well-fed of Assyria, and He will kindle a burning fire under its glory. |
| 17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers. | 17Israel's Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn up Assyria's thorns and thistles. |
| 18The splendor of his forests and fertile fields it will completely destroy, as when a sick person wastes away. | 18He will completely destroy the glory of its forests and orchards as a sickness consumes a person. |
| 19And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down. | 19The remaining trees of its forest will be so few in number that a child could count them. |
| 20In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. | 20On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. |
| 21A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God. | 21The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God. |
| 22Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. | 22Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows. |
| 23The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land. | 23For throughout the land the Lord GOD of Hosts is carrying out a destruction that was decreed. |
| 24Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: "My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did. | 24Therefore, the Lord GOD of Hosts says this: "My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, though he strikes you with a rod and raises his staff over you as the Egyptians did. |
| 25Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction." | 25In just a little while My wrath will be spent and My anger will turn to their destruction." |
| 26The LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt. | 26And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against him as He did when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and He will raise His staff over the sea as He did in Egypt. |
| 27In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat. | 27On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because of fatness. |
| 28They enter Aiath; they pass through Migron; they store supplies at Mikmash. | 28Assyria has come to Aiath and has gone through Migron, storing his equipment at Michmash. |
| 29They go over the pass, and say, "We will camp overnight at Geba." Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees. | 29They crossed over at the ford, saying," We will spend the night at Geba." The people of Ramah are trembling; those at Gibeah of Saul have fled. |
| 30Cry out, Daughter Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Poor Anathoth! | 30Cry aloud, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! Anathoth is miserable. |
| 31Madmenah is in flight; the people of Gebim take cover. | 31Madmenah has fled. The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge. |
| 32This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem. | 32Today he will stand at Nob, shaking his fist at the mountain of Daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. |
| 33See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low. | 33Look, the Lord GOD of Hosts will chop off the branches with terrifying power, and the tall trees will be cut down, the high trees felled. |
| 34He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax; Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One. | 34He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon with its majesty will fall. |
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