²³ For the Lord GOD of the hosts shall make a consumption and an end in the midst of all the land.

²⁴ ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of the hosts, O my people, dweller of Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a rod and shall lift up his stick against thee by the way of Egypt;

²⁵ yet from now until a very little while the indignation and my anger shall cease, to make an end of them.