So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more.
“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.
“He breaks in pieces mighty men without searching anything out, And sets others in their place.
When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
¶I have seen a wicked, ruthless man Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.
Then he passed away, and behold, he was no more; I sought for him, but he could not be found.
The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.
Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.
I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more; though you will be sought, you will never be found again,” declares Lord Yahweh.
But one of the descendants of her line will stand in his place, and he will come against their military force and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display strength.