Isaiah 14:20–31

²⁰You will not be united with them in burial

because you have destroyed your land,

you have killed your people.

The descendants^j of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

²¹Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons

because of the sin of their ancestors.^k

Let them not rise and take possession of the earth

or fill up the face of the world with cities.”

²²“And I will rise up against them,”

declares^l Yahweh of hosts,

“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,

and offspring and posterity,”

declares^m Yahweh.

²³“And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,

and pools of water,

and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,”

declaresⁿ Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

²⁴Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

“Surely^o just as I have intended, so it shall be.

And just as I have planned, it shall stand:

²⁵to break Assyria in my land,

and I will trample him down on my mountains;

and he shall remove his yoke from them,

and he shall remove his burden from his^p shoulders.”^q

²⁶This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth;

and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations.

²⁷For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it?

And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Oracle of Judgment on Philistia

²⁸In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:

²⁹You must not rejoice, all you Philistines,

that the rod that struck you is broken,

for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake,

and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

³⁰And the firstborn of the poor will graze,

and the needy will lie down in security;

but I will cause your root to die in famine,

and it will kill your remnant.

³¹Wail, gate! Cry, city!

Melt,^r Philistia, all of you!

For smoke is coming from the north,

and there is no straggler in his ranks.