There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.
I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.
Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.
Even if the forest is destroyed and the city is annihilated,
The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, mine or theirs.’