1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, relying on horses and trusting in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are strong, but who do not look to the Holy One of Israel and do not seek the LORD.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

2 Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

3 The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, both the helper will stumble and the one being helped will fall; they will all perish together.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

4 For this is what the LORD said to me: As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey, and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not frightened by their voice or disturbed by their noise, so the LORD of Hosts will come down to fight for Mount Zion and its hill.

For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem; He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

6 Return to the One you have so deeply rebelled against, O sons of Israel.

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

7 For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

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

8 Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

9 Their stronghold will pass away because of terror, and their officers will flee in panic at the signal. This is the declaration of the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.