I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, so that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is no inhabitant.
Then the angel of the LORD went out, and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be completely desolate,
Who is the wise man, who may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what cause the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?
Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy you, that there shall be no inhabitant.
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate behind them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.
Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward.