For though they be like plaited thorns,
And sodden as … ,[244]
They shall be consumed like dry stubble.
Came there not[245] out of thee one to plan evil against Jehovah,
A counsellor of mischief?[246]
Thus saith Jehovah, … many waters,[247] yet shall they be cut off and pass away, and I will so humble thee that I need humble thee[248] no more;[249] and Jehovah hath ordered concerning thee, that no more of thy seed be sown: from the house of thy God, I will cut off graven and molten image. I will make thy sepulchre … [250]
Disentangled from the above verses are three which plainly refer not to Assyria but to Judah. How they came to be woven among the others we cannot tell. Some of them appear applicable to the days of Josiah after the great Reform.
And now will I break his yoke from upon thee,
And burst thy bonds asunder.