Isaiah 30:31-33

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³¹ The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he smites with his rod. ³² And every stroke of the staff of punishment which the Lord lays upon them will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres; battling with brandished arm he will fight with them. ³³ For a burning place^[a] has long been prepared; yea, for the king^[b] it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, kindles it.