1 You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people. 2 That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans. 3 What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth? 4 You will be killed in battle or dragged off as prisoners. Yet even so the Lord's anger will not be ended; his hand will still be stretched out to punish.
The Emperor of Assyria as the Instrument of God
5 Is 14.24-27; Nh 1.1—3.19;Zep 2.13-15The Lordsaid, "Assyria! I use Assyrialike a club to punish those with whom I am angry. 6 I sent Assyriato attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."
7 But the Assyrianemperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations. 8 He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king! 9 I conquered the cities of Calnoand Carchemish, the cities of Hamathand Arpad. I conquered Samariaand Damascus. 10 I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalemand Samaria. 11 I have destroyed Samariaand all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalemand the images that are worshiped there."
12 But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zionand in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyriafor all his boasting and all his pride."
13 The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. 14 The nations of the world were like a bird’s nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"
15 But the Lordsays, "Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn’t lift up a person; a person lifts up a club."
16 The LordAlmighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns. 17 God, the light of Israel, will become a fire. Israel’s holy God will become a flame, which in a single day will burn up everything, even the thorns and thistles. 18 The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone. 19 There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.
A Few Will Come Back
20 A time is coming when the people of Israelwho have survived will not rely any more on the nation that almost destroyed them. They will truly put their trust in the Lord, Israel’s holy God. 21 A few of the people of Israel will come back to their mighty God. 22 Ro 9.27Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved. 23 Yes, throughout the whole country the Sovereign LordAlmighty will bring destruction, as he said he would.
The Lord Will Punish Assyria
24 The Sovereign LordAlmighty says to his people who live in Zion, "Do not be afraid of the Assyrians, even though they oppress you as the Egyptiansused to do. 25 In only a little while I will finish punishing you, and then I will destroy them. 26 I, the LordAlmighty, will beat them with my whip as I did the people of Midianat Oreb Rock. I will punish Assyria as I punished Egypt. 27 When that time comes, I will free you from the power of Assyria, and their yoke will no longer be a burden on your shoulders."10.27: Hebrew has three additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.
The Invader Attacks
28 The enemy army has captured the city of Ai!10.28: Ai: This and the other places mentioned in verses 28-32 were located near Jerusalem, along the way by which an invader would come to attack from the north.They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash! 29 They have crossed the pass and are spending the night at Geba! The people in the town of Ramahare terrified, and the people in King Saul’s hometown of Gibeahhave run away. 30 Shout, people of Gallim! Listen, people of Laishah! Answer, people of Anathoth! 31 The people of Madmenahand Gebimare running for their lives. 32 Today the enemy are in the town of Nob, and there they are shaking their fists at Mount Zion, at the city of Jerusalem.
33 The LordAlmighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated. 34 The Lordwill cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanonfall!
Lugar Bíblico
Região / Território
Assyria
Hoje: Northern Mesopotamia (Iraq)
אַשּׁוּרashshur
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Carchemish is the city by the Euphrates River where the army of Neco king of Egypt was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah (Jeremiah 46:2).
Hamath is a land where Riblah was located, the place where Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him (Jeremiah 39:5).
Damascus is a city of the Arameans, with its own king, captured by the king of Assyria. Saul went there with letters to take as prisoners those who belonged to the Way (Acts 9:2).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Jacob, son of Isaac, bought the birthright from Esau, wrestled with God at Penuel, and received the name Israel; his twelve sons gave rise to the tribes (Genesis 32:28).
Significado: “One who takes by the heel (supplanter)”
Jacob, son of Isaac, bought the birthright from Esau, wrestled with God at Penuel, and received the name Israel; his twelve sons gave rise to the tribes (Genesis 32:28).
Significado: “One who takes by the heel (supplanter)”
Zion is the fortress David captured, which became the City of David; the people of the Lord live there, and it was foretold that Zion would be plowed like a field (2 Samuel 5:7).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Egypt is the land where Abram went down because of famine and where Jacob and his sons went. Because Pharaoh refused to let Israel go, the Lord killed all the firstborn there (Exodus 13:15).
Ramah was the place that Baasha king of Israel fortified to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah; Asa carried away its stones and timber and built Geba and Mizpah (1 Kings 15:22).
Anathoth is the town in the land of Benjamin where the priest Jeremiah son of Hilkiah was. Jeremiah bought the property there from his cousin Hanamel for seventeen shekels of silver (Jeremiah 32:9).
Nob was the town of the priests where David went to Ahimelech the priest and where Saul had the inhabitants put to the sword, including men, women, and children (1 Samuel 22:19).
Zion is the fortress David captured, which became the City of David; the people of the Lord live there, and it was foretold that Zion would be plowed like a field (2 Samuel 5:7).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Lebanon is a land of mountains and cedars, where timber was cut with the help of the Sidonians and where Solomon built whatever he desired, as he did in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of his realm (1 Kings 9:19).