Judgment against Assyria

• 27 burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud.
• His lips are full of indignation,
  • and his tongue is like a devouring fire.
  • 28 is like an overflowing river; it reaches up to the neck
• to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness;
  • and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples.
  • 29 [fn] as in the night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute,
    • to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.
  • 30  and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen,
• in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire,
  • with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones[fn] of hail.
  • 31 he strikes with the rod.
  • 32 the staff of foundation[fn] that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres,and he will fight against it[fn] with battles of brandishing.
  • 33 indeed, it is made ready for the king.
• He makes its pile of wood deep and wide;
  • he makes fire and wood[fn]
    • The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur.