Isaiah 33:10-12

10-12. This iniquity is now full. The day of judgment to Assyria has come. As though indifferently sitting still, Jehovah has looked on long enough, and says,

Now will I rise… now… be exalted; now… lift up myself The thrice repeated “now” denotes earnest business. On hearing this the prophet knows what is to come, and cries out as if to the enemy, Ye… conceive chaff, ye… bring forth stubble Your vainglorious swell and threat amounts to utter nothing. Your furious, snorting menace is turned back to you, an inward, self-consuming flame. God’s purpose is to make the nations here represented in this your devouring army to become utterly consumed, as the burnings of lime; speedily consumed, as thorns, or dead brushwood, cut and dried for immediate heating.