16 Cut off the sower from Babylon,+ and the one handling the sickle in the time of harvest. Because of the maltreating sword they will turn each one to his own people, and they will flee each one to his own land.+

13 “And he will stretch out his hand toward the north, and he will destroy As·syrʹi·a.+ And he will make Ninʹe·veh a desolate waste,+ a waterless region like the wilderness.