23. For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.
24. Therefore, thus saith the Lord the God of hosts: O my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall strike thee with his rod, and he shall lift up his staff over thee in the way of Egypt.
25. For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.
26. And the Lord of hosts shall raise up a scourge against him, according to the slaughter of Madian in the rock of Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.
27. And 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 putrify at the presence of the oil.
28. He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
29. They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.
30. Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.
31. Medemena is removed: ye inhabitants of Gabim, take courage.
32. It is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe: he shall shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Sion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33. Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.
34. And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.