Isaiah 31:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴ For thus the Lord said to me,
^(A)“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
    and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
    or daunted at their noise,
^(B)so the Lord of hosts will come down
    to fight^[a] on Mount Zion and on its hill.
^5 (C)Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”