23 They will certainly cut down her forest,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘for it could not be penetrated. For they have become more numerous than the locust,+ and they are without number.

4* “For, look! the day is coming that is burning like the furnace,+ and all the presumptuous ones and all those doing wickedness must become as stubble.+ And the day that is coming will certainly devour them,” Jehovah of armies has said, “so that it will not leave to them either root or bough.+