18. Both the glory of his forest and his fruitful field, he will consume, both soul and body. It will be like a sick man wasting away.
19. The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few, a child could record them.
20. Yet it will come about in that day that the remnant of Israel— those of the house of Jacob who escaped— will never again depend on the one who struck them down, but will depend upon Adonai, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21. A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
22. For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed. Justice overflows.
23. For a complete destruction, as decreed, will Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot make throughout the whole land.
24. Therefore thus says Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot: “O My people dwelling in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, though he strike you with the war-club, and lift up his rod against you, as Egypt did.
25. “For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
26. Adonai-Tzva’ot will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the Rock of Oreb. As His staff was over the sea, so will He lift it up, as He did in Egypt.
27. In that day his burden will be taken off your shoulders, and his yoke off your neck. Indeed, the yoke will be broken because of fatness.