⁵ And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

¹³ This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

¹³ But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

¹⁴ In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

⁸ Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

³ For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

⁵ As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

¹⁶ For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

¹⁷ And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

¹⁸ And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

⁵ Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

⁶ At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

⁵ God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

⁶ The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

⁵ Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

⁴ The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

¹⁸ How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?