1 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_Jehovah!
2 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.
3 Now the Egyptians
are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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.
4 For thus hath
_the_LORD_Jehovah 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_Jehovah of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will
_the_LORD_Jehovah of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver
it; and passing over he will preserve
it.
6 Turn ye unto
him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 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.
8 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.
9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith
_the_LORD_Jehovah, whose fire
is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.