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!
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
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05 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts
defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver
it; and passing over he will preserve it.
06 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of
Israel have deeply revolted.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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