23 “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls, and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
24 The Lord of Hosts has sworn:As I have purposed, so it will be;as I have planned it, so it will happen.
25 I will break Assyria 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.
26 This is the plan preparedfor the whole earth,and this is the hand stretched outagainst all the nations.
27 The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it;therefore, who can stand in its way?It is His hand that is outstretched,so who can turn it back?
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle came:
29 Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.For a viper will come from the root of a snake,and from its egg comes a flying serpent.