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So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and his briers in one day.
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And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.
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Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them.
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And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
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The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God.
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For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
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For the Lord God of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all the land.
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Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of Egypt.
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For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction."
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And the Lord of hosts will stir up a scourge for him like the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; as His rod was on the sea, so will He lift it up in the manner of Egypt.
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It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.