Isaiah 30:27-31:9

English Standard Version

²⁷Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
    burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;^[a]
his lips are full of fury,
    and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
²⁸^(A)his breath is ^(B)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples ^(C)a bridle that leads astray.

²⁹You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, ^(D)as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to ^(E)the mountain of the Lord, to ^(F)the Rock of Israel. ³⁰And the Lord ^(G)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger ^(H)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst ^(I)and storm and hailstones. ³¹The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, ^(J)when he strikes with his rod. ³²And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them ^(K)will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. ^(L)Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. ³³For ^(M)a burning place^[b] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, ^(N)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; ^(O)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

31 Woe^[c] to ^(P)those who go down to Egypt for help
    and rely on horses,
who ^(Q)trust in chariots because they are many
    and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but ^(R)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
    or consult the Lord!
²And ^(S)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
    ^(T)he does not call back his words,
but ^(U)will arise against the house of the evildoers
    and against the helpers of ^(V)those who work iniquity.
³The Egyptians are man, and not God,
    and their horses ^(W)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
    and they will all perish together.

⁴For thus the Lord said to me,
^(X)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
^(Y)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight^[d] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
⁵^(Z)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”

⁶^(AA)Turn to him from whom people^[e] have ^(AB)deeply revolted, O children of Israel. ⁷For in that day ^(AC)everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

⁸^(AD)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be ^(AE)put to forced labor.
⁹^(AF)His rock shall pass away in terror,
    and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose ^(AG)fire is in Zion,
    and whose ^(AH)furnace is in Jerusalem.