For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and without number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck; and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanu-el.”
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.