Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”
But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
“The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
“And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.
He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.