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<p class="indent2"> they do not seek the LORD. <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; <p class="indent2"> He does not call back His words. <p class="indent1"> He will rise up against the house of the wicked <p class="indent2"> and against the allies of evildoers. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But the Egyptians are men, not God; <p class="indent2"> their horses are flesh, not spirit. <p class="indent1"> When the LORD stretches out His hand, <p class="indent2"> the helper will stumble, <p class="indent1"> and the one he helps will fall; <p class="indent2"> both will perish together. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD has said to me: <p class="indent1stline">“Like a lion roaring <p class="indent2"> or a young lion over its prey—<p class="indent1"> and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, <p class="indent2"> it is not terrified by their shouting <p class="indent2"> or subdued by their clamor—<p class="indent1"> so the LORD of Hosts will come down <p class="indent2"> to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Like birds hovering overhead, <p class="indent2"> so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. <p class="indent1"> He will shield it and deliver it; <p class="indent2"> He will pass over it and preserve it.” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Then Assyria will fall, <p class="indent2"> but not by the sword of man; <p class="indent1"> a sword will devour them, <p class="indent2"> but not one made by mortals. <p class="indent1"> They will flee before the sword, <p class="indent2"> and their young men will be put to forced labor. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their rock will pass away for fear, <p class="indent2"> and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” <p class="indent1"> declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, <p class="indent2"> whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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