²³ For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, ^(A)the Lord ^[a]God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.

²⁴ Therefore thus says the Lord ^[b]God of hosts, “O My people who dwell in ^(B)Zion, ^(C)do not fear the Assyrian ^[c]who ^(D)strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you, the way Egypt did. ²⁵ For in a very ^(E)little while ^(F)My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”