Isaiah 14:20–31

²⁰“You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have ruined your country,

You have slain your people.

May the ^aoffspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

²¹“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter

Because of the ^ainiquity of their fathers.

They must not arise and take possession of the earth

And fill the face of the world with cities.”

²²“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon ^aname and survivors, ^boffspring and posterity,” declares the Lord.

²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of ^bdestruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Judgment on Assyria

²⁴The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, ^ajust as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

²⁵to ^abreak Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his ^byoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

²⁶“This is the ^aplan ¹devised against the whole earth; and this is the ^bhand that is stretched out against all the nations.

²⁷“For ^athe Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

²⁸In the ^ayear that King Ahaz died this ^1boracle came:

Judgment on Philistia

²⁹“Do not rejoice, O ^aPhilistia, all of you,

Because the rod that ^bstruck you is broken;

For from the serpent’s root a ^cviper will come out,

And its fruit will be a ^dflying serpent.

³⁰“¹Those who are most ^ahelpless will eat,

And the needy will lie down in security;

I will ²destroy your root with ^bfamine,

And it will kill off your survivors.

³¹“Wail, O ^agate; cry, O city;

¹Melt away, O ^bPhilistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the ^cnorth,

And ^dthere is no straggler in his ranks.