| Chapter
31 |
| 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! |
| 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 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. |
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4 | 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. |
| 5 |
As birds flying, so will the LORD 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, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in
Jerusalem. |
