Isa 5:24, 30:30-33, 31:8-9, 37:23-29, Nah 1:5-10 | ESV | STEP | Therefore , as the tongue of fire devours the stubble , and as dry grass sinks down in the flame , so their root will be as rottenness , and their blossom go up like dust ; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts , and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel .

Isaiah 5:24

24 Therefore, ^aas the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^btheir root will be ^cas rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^drejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have ^edespised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:30-33

30 And the Lord ^fwill cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger ^gand a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst ^hand storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, ⁱwhen he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them ^jwill be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. ^kBattling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For ^la burning place ^{▼▼Or For Topheth} has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, ⁿits pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; ^othe breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 31:8-9

8 ^p“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be ^qput to forced labor.
9 ^rHis rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the Lord, whose ^sfire is in Zion,
and whose ^tfurnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 37:23-29

23 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against ^uthe Holy One of Israel!
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ^vWith my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
^wto cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all ^xthe streams ^yof Egypt.
26 ^z“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts and 2 Kings 19:26; most Hebrew manuscripts like a field} before it is grown.
28 “‘I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
29 ^abBecause you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and ^acI will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’

Nahum 1:5-10

5 ^adThe mountains quake before him;
^aethe hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
^afthe world and all who dwell in it.
6 ^agWho can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath ^ahis poured out like fire,
and ^aithe rocks are broken into pieces by him.
7 ^ajThe Lord is good,
^aka stronghold in the day of trouble;
^alhe knows those who take refuge in him.
8 But ^amwith an overflowing flood
he will make a complete end of the adversaries, ^{▼▼Hebrew of her place}
and ^aowill pursue his enemies into darkness.
9 What ^apdo you plot against the Lord?
^aqHe will make a complete end;
trouble will not rise up a second time.
10 For they are ^arlike entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
^asthey are consumed like stubble fully dried.