311 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses , And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong , But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel , nor seek the Lord ! 2 Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster And does not retract His words , But will arise against the house of evildoers And against the help of the workers of iniquity . 3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God , And their horses are flesh and not spirit ; So the Lord will stretch out His hand , And he who helps will stumble And he who is helped will fall , And all of them will come to an end together . 4 For thus says the Lord to me, "As the lion or the young lion growls over his prey , Against which a band of shepherds is called out, And he will not be terrified at their voice nor disturbed at their noise , So will the Lord of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill ." 5 Like flying birds so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem . He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.
6 Return to Him from whom you have deeply defected , O sons of Israel . 7 For in that day every man will cast away his silver idols and his gold idols , which your sinful hands have made for you as a sin . 8 And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man , And a sword not of man will devour him. So he will not escape the sword , And his young men will become forced laborers . 9 "His rock will pass away because of panic , And his princes will be terrified at the standard ," Declares the Lord , whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem .
