22. For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea,yet a remnant of them shall return;the destruction is decreed,overflowing with righteousness.
23. For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a complete destruction,as decreed, in the midst of all the land.
24. Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Hosts: O My people who dwell in Zion,do not be afraid of the Assyrian.He shall strike you with a rodand shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
25. For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease,and My anger will be directed to their destruction.
26. The Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for himaccording to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb;and as His rod was over the sea, so shall He lift it upafter the manner of Egypt.