27 Look, Yahweh is coming from far away.

He’s very angry and his weight ascends.

His lips are full of indignation

and his tongue is like a consuming fire.

28 His breath is like a rushing river that comes up to the neck,

to sift the nations in a sieve that separates out worthlessness,

and with a bridle in the people’s jaws to lead them astray.

29 You’ll all have your own song like you would at a religious festival,

and be happy inside like when someone walks to Yahweh’s mountain with their flute—

going to Yisrael’s (Israel’s) rock that gives protection.

30 Then Yahweh will make his majestic voice heard

and lowering his arm, he’ll reveal his raging anger and the consuming flame,

as well as a windstorm, a rainstorm, and a hailstorm,

31 because Yahweh’s voice will shatter Ashur (Assyria)—

he’ll strike them with a rod.

32 With every stroke from the punishing rod that he puts across them,

there’ll be tambourines and harps as he fights them in battle—brandishing his arm,

33 because a cremation place was arranged long ago.

Indeed, it’s been prepared for the Assyrian king.

Its funeral pyre is deep and wide with the firewood piled high.

Yahweh’s breath will ignite it like a stream of burning sulphur.