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Assyria Will Be Punished

27 The Lord is coming
    from far away
with his fiery anger
    and thick clouds of smoke.[a]
His angry words flame up
    like a destructive fire;
28 he breathes out a flood
    that comes up to the neck.
He sifts the nations
    and destroys them.
Then he puts a bridle
in every foreigner's mouth
    and leads them to doom.

29 The Lord's people will sing as they do when they celebrate a religious festival[b] at night. The Lord is Israel's mighty rock,[c] and his people will be as happy as they are when they follow the sound of flutes to the mountain where he is worshiped.

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Footnotes

  1. 30.27 with … smoke: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 30.29 a religious festival: Probably Passover.
  3. 30.29 mighty rock: See the note at 17.10.

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