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Judgement on Assyria

²⁷ See, the name of the Lord comes from far away,
   burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;^*
his lips are full of indignation,
   and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
²⁸ his breath is 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 a bridle that leads them astray.

29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones. ³¹The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he strikes with his rod. ³²And every stroke of the staff of punishment that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with him. ³³For his burning-place^* has long been prepared; truly it is made ready for the king,^* its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it.