Isaiah 14:20–31

²⁰You will not join them in burial,

because you destroyed your land

and slaughtered your own people.

The offspring of evildoers

will never be mentioned again.^h

²¹Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,

because of the iniquityⁱ of their ancestors.

They will never rise up to possess a land

or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

²²“I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration. ²³“I will make her a swampland and a region for herons,^A and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

ASSYRIA WILL BE DESTROYED

²⁴The Lord of Armies has sworn:

As I have purposed, so it will be;

as I have planned it, so it will happen.^j

²⁵I will break Assyria^k in my land;

I will tread him down on my mountain.

Then his yoke will be taken from them,

and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.

²⁶This is the plan^l prepared

for the whole earth,

and this is the hand stretched out

against all the nations.

²⁷The Lord of Armies himself has planned it;

therefore, who can stand in its way?

It is his hand that is outstretched,

so who can turn it back?

A PRONOUNCEMENT AGAINST PHILISTIA

²⁸In the year that King Ahaz died,^m this pronouncement came:ⁿ

²⁹Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,

because the rod of the one who struck you^o is broken.

For a viper will come from the root^B of a snake,

and from its egg comes a flying serpent.^p

³⁰Then the firstborn^q of the poor will be well fed,

and the impoverished will lie down in safety,

but I will kill your root with hunger,

and your remnant will be slain.

³¹Wail, you gates!^r Cry out, city!

Tremble with fear,^a all Philistia!

For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,^b

and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.