Bilingual reading

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek the LORD!

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

For the LORD says to me, “As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for their noise, so the LORD of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

As birds hovering, so the LORD of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

وَيلٌ لِلنَّازِلينَ إِلى مِصرَ لِلٱستِنْصار المُعتَمِدينَ على الخَيل المُتَوَكِّلينَ على المَركَباتِ لِأَنَّها كثيرة وعلى الفُرْسانِ لِأَنَّهم أَقوِياءُ جِدًّا الَّذينَ لا يَلتَفِتونَ إِلى قُدُّوسِ إِسْرائيل ولا يَلتَمِسونَ الرَّبّ

هو أَيضًا حَكيمٌ فيَجلُبُ الشَّرّ ولا يَرجِعُ عن كَلامِه بل يَقومُ على بَيتِ الأَشْرار وعلى نُصرَةِ فاعِلي الآثام

إِنَّما مِصرُ بَشَرٌ لا إِلٰه وخَيلُهم جَسَدٌ لا روح فإِذا مَدَّ الرَّبُّ يَدَه عَثَرَ النَّاصِر وسَقَطَ المَنْصورُ وفَنوا كُلُّهم مَعًا

لِأَنَّه هٰكذا قالَ لِيَ الرَّبّ: كما يَزأَرُ الأَسَدُ والشِّبلُ على فَريسَتِه وإِذا تَنادى علَيه جَماعةٌ مِنَ الرُّعاة لا يَفزَعُ مِن صَوتِهم ولا يَنثَني مِن جَلَبَتِهم كذٰلك يَنزِلُ رَبُّ القُوَّات لِلمُحارَبَةِ على جَبَلِ صِهْيون، على تَلَّتِه

وكالطُّيورِ الطَّائِرَة يَحْمي رَبُّ القُوَّاتِ أُورَشَليم يَحْمي فيُنقِذُ ويَعْفو فيُنَجِّي

توبوا إِلى الَّذي تَمادى بَنو إِسْرائيلَ في عِصْيانِهم لَه

لِأَنَّه في ذٰلك اليَومِ يَنبِذُ كُلُّ واحِدٍ أَوثانَه مِنَ الفِضَّة وأَوثانَه مِنَ الذَّهَب الَّتي صَنَعَتها لَكم أَيديكمُ الخاطِئة

ويَسقُطُ أَشُّورُ بِسَيفٍ لا بِسَيفِ إِنْسان ويَلتَهِمُه سَيفٌ لا سَيفُ إِنْسان فيَهرُبُ مِنَ السَّيف ويَكونُ شُبَّانُه لِلسُّخرَة

ويَهجُرُ صَخرَه مِنَ الفَزَع ويَرتَعِبُ أُمَراؤه ويَترُكونَ الرَّاية يَقولُ الرَّبُّ الَّذي لَه نارٌ في صِهْيونَ وتَنُّورٌ في أُورَشَليم