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1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD!
2 Yet he too is wise and will bring calamity;
he will not take back his words.
He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice iniquity.
3 The Egyptians are human, and not God;
their horses are flesh, and not spirit.
When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble and the one helped will fall;
all of them will perish together.
4 For this is what the LORD said to me: “As a lion, a young lion, growls over its prey, and though a crowd of shepherds is called out against it, it is not frightened by their voices or cowed by their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.
5 Like flying birds, so the LORD of hosts will shield Jerusalem;
shielding, he will deliver her;
passing over, he will rescue her.”
6 Return to him against whom the children of Israel have deeply rebelled.
7 For in that day each man will reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands made for you as a sin.
8 “Assyria will fall by a sword that is not of man, and a sword that is not human will devour him.
He will flee before the sword, and his young men will be put to forced labor.
9 His rock will pass away in terror, and his officials will be dismayed at the banner,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.