5 Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hostswill protect Jerusalem;he will protect and deliver it;he will spare and rescue it.”
6 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
8 “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;and he shall flee from the sword,and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
9 His rock shall pass away in terror,and his officers desert the standard in panic,”declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion,and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.