22 “For I will rise up against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offshoot and offspring,” declares Adonai.
23 “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
24 Adonai Tzva’ot has sworn, saying: “Surely, as I thought it, so it will be. As I have purposed, so it will stand.
25 I will break Assyria in My land. On My mountains I will trample him. Then his yoke will be taken off them, his burden removed from their shoulder.
26 This is the purpose planned for the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.”
27 For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?
28 In the year king Ahaz died came this burden: