22 Though your people, O Israel,were like the sand of the sea,Only a remnant of them will return;their destruction is decreed,as overflowing justice demands.
23 For the Lord, the God of hosts, is about to carry out the destruction decreed in the midst of the whole land.
24 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: My people, who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian, though he strikes you with a rod, and raises his staff against you as did the Egyptians.
25 For just a brief moment more, and my wrath shall be over, and my anger shall be set for their destruction.
26 Then the Lord of hosts will raise against them a scourge such as struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did in Egypt.
27 On that day,His burden shall be taken from your shoulder,and his yoke shattered from your neck.He has come up from Rimmon,
28 he has reached Aiath, passed through Migron,at Michmash he has stored his supplies.