Isaiah 14:20–31

²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial,

because you have destroyed your land,

you have slain your people.

“May the descendants of evildoers

nevermore be named!

²¹Prepare slaughter for his sons

because of the guilt of their fathers,

lest they rise and possess the earth,

and fill the face of the world with cities.”

²²“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord. ²³And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.”

²⁴The Lord of hosts has sworn:

“As I have planned,

so shall it be,

and as I have purposed,

so shall it stand,

²⁵that I will break the Assyrian in my land,

and upon my mountains trample him under foot;

and his yoke shall depart from them,

and his burden from their shoulder.”

²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed

concerning the whole earth;

and this is the hand that is stretched out

over all the nations.

²⁷For the Lord of hosts has purposed,

and who will annul it?

His hand is stretched out,

and who will turn it back?

²⁸In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:

²⁹“Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you,

that the rod which smote you is broken,

for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder,

and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

³⁰And the first-born of the poor will feed,

and the needy lie down in safety;

but I will kill your root with famine,

and your remnant I will slay.

³¹Wail, O gate; cry, O city;

melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!

For smoke comes out of the north,

and there is no straggler in his ranks.”