以賽亞書 31：5-9
現代中文譯本（2019）
5 正如飛鳥伏在巢上保護幼鳥，我—上主、萬軍的統帥也要保護耶路撒冷，守衛它，拯救它，不使它受害。」
6 上主說：「以色列人哪，你們曾背叛我。現在回來吧！
7 時候到了，你們該扔掉你們親手用金銀所鑄造的那些邪惡的偶像。
8 亞述要在戰爭中被摧毀，但不是出於人的力量。亞述人要臨陣逃脫；他們的年輕人被擄作奴隸。
9 他們的國王要驚慌逃跑；軍官們慌慌張張地撤退，連軍旗也拋棄了。」上主這樣宣布了。他要在耶路撒冷設火爐，在錫安火燒仇敵。
ESV
5 Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.”
6 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
7 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
8 “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 put to forced labor.
9 His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
《舊約-聖經背景註釋》
亞述的結局
亞述的最終下場是被巴比倫迦勒底人與瑪代人率領的聯軍殲滅。巴比倫年鑒描述尼尼微在主前六一二年是如何陷落於巴比倫的拿布波拉撒，以及瑪代的領袖古阿薩勒斯手中。
主前六O五年在迦基米施的最後一戰，我們看到巴比倫的領袖尼布甲尼撒是如何使曾經立於不敗之地的亞述軍隊與埃及盟國的士氣完全渙散。如此，雅巍的幹預，以及主前六二七年亞述巴尼帕的駕崩，使亞述喪失了強有力的領袖之後，這個民族的影響力就從古代近東消失了。
