Isaiah 31

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

² Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

³ Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they all will be destroyed together.

⁴ For thus says Yahweh to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise; so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.

⁵ As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

⁶ Turn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

⁷ For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for you for a sin.

⁸ “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, will devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

⁹ His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.