Second Nephi — Chapter 20
(See Isaiah 10)
1 “Woe to those who make unfair laws, and write down unfair rules,
2 “So the poor and the widows and the orphans will not be given justice, and so wicked people can rob them!
3 “What will you do when your destruction comes from the far lands? Where will you go for help? Where will you hide your riches?
4 “Without me, you will lie down with the prisoners or fall down among the dead.” Even after all this, the Lord will still be angry.
5 “The Assyrian king is my whip, and my anger is a rod in his hands.
6 “I will send him against this nation of hypocrites, and I will let him destroy this people with whom I am angry. He will walk over them as if they were mud in the streets.
7 “Even if he does not understand what he is doing, he wants in his heart to destroy many nations.”
8 The Assyrian king says: “Aren’t my princes just like kings?
9 “Isn’t Calno just like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath just like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria just like Damascus?
10 “Just as I destroyed those nations who had better idols than those at Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 “Won’t I do the same thing to Jerusalem and its idols as I did to Samaria and its idols?”
12 But after the Lord uses the Assyrians to punish Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish the king of Assyria for his pride,
13 Because he says: “I have done these things by my own strength and wisdom. I am very smart. I have taken over all these nations, I have taken all their riches, I have defeated all these people.
14 “I have found all their riches, and taken many slaves, and no one could stop me.”
15 Can an ax say it is better than the one who uses it? Can a saw think it is better than the one who cuts with it?
16 So the Lord of Hosts will make the fat ones thin, and his glory will make a burning like fire.
17 The Light of Israel will be a fire, and the Holy One will be a flame of fire which will burn up the thorns and weeds in one day,
18 And completely burn up his forests and fields, leaving them to rot.
19 There will be so few trees left that a child could count them.
20 At that time, the rest of Israel, and those of the House of Jacob who have escaped, will not look for protection from the one who defeated them, but will trust in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
21 The rest of Jacob will turn again to the mighty God.
22 Even though your people are as many as grains of sand by the sea, O Israel, only part of them will come back. Those who come back will be righteous.
23 My Lord, the Lord God of Hosts, will completely destroy all the land.
24 This is what the Lord God of Hosts says: “O my people who live in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrians, even though they will hit you with a rod just like the Egyptians did.
25 “My anger against you will soon be over, and then my anger will destroy them.”
26 The Lord of Hosts will destroy them just as the Midianites were killed at the rock of Oreb. He will raise his staff and do to them what he did to the Egyptians. the ground.
27 On that day you will no longer be their slaves, and their heavy chains will be taken off your neck and destroyed.
28 He has come to Aiath. He has gone to Migron. He is gathering his weapons at Michmash.
29 They have gone through the pass and stayed overnight at Geba. Ramath is afraid, and Gibeah of Saul is running away.
30 Shout, O daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laish! Answer her, O poor Anathoth!
31 Madmenah has moved out of the way. The people of Gebim have all run away.
32 He will still stay in Nob only for that day, and then he will make the sign to move against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 The Lord of Hosts will destroy the trees with terrible power. The high ones will be cut down and made low.
34 He will cut down the forests with tools of iron, and Lebanon will have a great fall.
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