Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of Hosts:
_O my people that dwellest in Zion,
_be not afraid of the Assyrian;
_he shall smite thee with a rod,
_and shall lift up his staff against thee,
_after the manner of Egypt.
For yet a very little while,
_and the indignation shall cease,
_and mine anger in their destruction.
And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him
_according to the slaughter of Midian
_at the rock of Oreb;
_and as his rod was upon the sea
_so shall he lift it up
_after the manner of Egypt.
And it shall come to pass in that day
_that his burden shall be taken away
_from off thy shoulder,
_and his yoke from off thy neck,
_and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.