Behold, the LORD, the God of hosts, will lop off the boughs with terrible power; the lofty trees will be brought low, and the high ones will be humbled—the sudden intervention of God in the form of judgment against the mighty Assyrian power. The arboreal metaphor, shifting from Assyria as an axe to Assyria as a lofty tree, establishes that what exalts itself against God will be brought low. This verse announces the dramatic reversal: the conqueror will be conquered by the God whose people it has sought to destroy.

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