19. But you are cast away from your own gravelike a rejected branch,covered by the deadand those pierced by the sword—who go down to the stony pit—like a trampled corpse.
20. You won’t join them in burial,for you destroyed your own land;you killed your own people.Such evil offspring will never be mentioned again!
21. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their father. Don’t let them arise to take over the earth or fill the world with cities.
22. I will arise against them, says the Lord of heavenly forces. I will cut off Babylon’s renown and remnant, offshoot and offspring.
23. I will make it the home of herons, a swampland. I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of heavenly forces.
24. The Lord of heavenly forces has promised:As I intended, so it will be;and as I have planned, so it will happen:
25. I will break Assyria in my land;on my mountains I will trample itand remove its yoke from my people;his burden will be taken from their shoulders.
26. This is the plan that has been made for all the earth;this is the hand extended over all the nations.
27. The Lord of heavenly forces has created a plan;who can stop it?God’s hand is extended;who will stop it?
28. This oracle came in the year of King Ahaz’s death:
29. Don’t rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken,because from the snake’s root a viper will grow,and it will produce a winged creature.
30. The oldest offspring of the poor will graze;their needy will lie down secure.But he will starve your offspring to death,and murder all who remain.