[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, neither seek
Yahweh! [2] Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call
back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, 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: and when Yahweh shall
stretch out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped
shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together. [4] For thus says
Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a
multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed
at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of
Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it. [5] As birds
hovering, so will Yahweh of Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and
deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve [it]. [6] Turn you to him from
whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel. [7] For in that day they
shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which
your own hands have made to you for a sin. [8] The Assyrian shall fall by
the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he
shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to forced
labor. [9] His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes
shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and
his furnace in Jerusalem.
