33FOR [IS] ARRANGED FROM YESTERDAY A PLACE OF BURNING ALSO IT FOR THE KING IT HAS BEEN PREPARED SOMEONE HAS MADE [IT] DEEP SOMEONE HAS MADE [IT] LARGE WOOD PILE ITS [IS] FIRE AND WOOD<S> MUCH [THE] BREATH OF YAHWEH LIKE A TORRENT OF SULFUR [IS] ABOUT TO BURN <IN> <THE> IT 33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze
1WOE TO! THOSE [WHO] GO DOWN EGYPT FOR HELP ON HORSES THEY DEPEND AND THEY HAVE RELIED ON CHARIOTRY FOR [IT IS] MANY AND ON HORSEMEN FOR THEY ARE NUMEROUS EXCEEDINGLY AND NOT THEY LOOK ON [THE] HOLY [ONE] OF ISRAEL AND <OBJ.> YAHWEH NOT THEY SEEK Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt 1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
2AND ALSO HE [IS] WISE AND HE HAS BROUGHT CALAMITY AND <OBJ.> WORDS HIS NOT HE HAS TURNED ASIDE AND HE WILL RISE UP ON [THE] HOUSE OF EVIL-DOERS AND ON [THE] HELP OF [THOSE WHO] DO <OF> WICKEDNESS 2Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
3AND EGYPT [IS] HUMANKIND AND NOT GOD AND HORSES THEIR [ARE] FLESH AND NOT SPIRIT AND YAHWEH HE WILL STRETCH OUT HAND HIS AND HE WILL STUMBLE [ONE WHO] HELPS AND HE WILL FALL [ONE WHO] IS HELPED AND TOGETHER ALL OF THEM THEY WILL COME TO AN END! 3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
4FOR THUS HE HAS SAID YAHWEH TO ME JUST AS IT GROWLS THE LION AND THE YOUNG LION OVER PREY ITS THAT IT IS SUMMONED ON IT A MULTITUDE OF SHEPHERDS FROM VOICE THEIR NOT IT IS DISMAYED AND FROM TUMULT THEIR NOT IT CRINGES SO HE WILL COME DOWN YAHWEH OF HOSTS TO WAGE WAR ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF ZION AND ON HILL ITS 4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
5LIKE BIRDS FLYING SO HE WILL DEFEND YAHWEH OF HOSTS <ON> JERUSALEM HE WILL DEFEND [IT] AND HE WILL RESCUE [IT] HE WILL PASS OVER [IT] AND HE WILL DELIVER [IT] 5Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
6RETURN TO [THE ONE] WHOM THEY HAVE MADE DEEP REBELLION [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL 6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
7FOR IN THE DAY <THE> THAT THEY WILL REJECT! EVERYONE [THE] IDOLS OF SILVER HIS AND [THE] IDOLS OF GOLD HIS WHICH THEY HAVE MADE FOR YOU HANDS YOUR SIN 7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
8AND IT WILL FALL ASSYRIA BY A SWORD NOT A HUMAN AND A SWORD NOT A HUMAN IT WILL CONSUME IT AND IT WILL FLEE <FOR> ITSELF FROM BEFORE A SWORD AND YOUNG MEN ITS <INTO> FORCED LABOR THEY WILL BECOME 8“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
9AND ROCK ITS FROM TERROR IT WILL PASS AWAY AND THEY WILL BE DISMAYED FROM A STANDARD COMMANDERS ITS [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH WHO FIRE [BELONGS] TO HIM IN ZION AND AN OVEN [BELONGS] TO HIM IN JERUSALEM 9Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.