¹⁵ Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?^(A)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club^(B) brandish the one who is not wood!

“My people who live in Zion,^(A)
    do not be afraid^(B) of the Assyrians,
who beat^(C) you with a rod^(D)
    and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.

³¹ The voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria;^(A)
    with his rod he will strike^(B) them down.

¹⁵ “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,^(A)
    new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains^(B) and crush them,
    and reduce the hills to chaff.^(C)

45 “This is what the Lord says to his anointed,^(A)
    to Cyrus,^(B) whose right hand I take hold^(C) of
to subdue nations^(D) before him
    and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
    so that gates will not be shut:

²³ How broken and shattered
    is the hammer^(A) of the whole earth!^(B)
How desolate^(C) is Babylon
    among the nations!

²⁰ “You are my war club,^(A)
    my weapon for battle—
with you I shatter^(B) nations,^(C)
    with you I destroy kingdoms,