New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Shame upon those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
putting their trust in chariots many in number
and in horsemen in their thousands,
but do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or seek guidance of the Lord!
2 Yet the Lord too in his wisdom can bring about trouble
and he does not take back his words;
he will rise up against the league of evildoers,
against all who help those who do wrong.
3 The Egyptians are men, not God, note
their horses are flesh, not spirit;
and, when the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all vanish together.
4 This is what the Lord has said to me:
As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey
when the muster of shepherds is called out against it,
and is not scared at their noise
or cowed by their clamour,
so shall the Lord of Hosts come down to do battle
for Mount Zion and her high summit.
5 Thus the Lord of Hosts, like a bird hovering over its young,
will be a shield over Jerusalem;
he will shield her and deliver her,
standing over her and delivering her.
6 O Israel, come back to him whom you have so deeply offended,
7 for on that day when you spurn, one and all,
the idols of silver and the idols of gold
which your own sinful hands have made,
8 Assyria shall fall by the sword, but by no sword of man;
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Assyria and Judah
a sword that no man wields shall devour him.
He shall flee before the sword,
and his young warriors shall be put to forced labour,
9 his officers shall be helpless from terror
and his captains too dismayed to flee.
This is the very word of the Lord
whose fire blazes in Zion,
and whose furnace is set up in Jerusalem.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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