5 As birds hovering, so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem.He will protect and deliver it.He will pass over and preserve it.”
6 Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
7 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.
8 “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.
9 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.