20. You will never be together with them in the grave,For you have ruined your land,you have slain your people!Let him never be named,that offshoot of evil!
21. Make ready to slaughter his sonsfor the guilt of their fathers;Lest they rise and possess the earth,and fill the breadth of the world with cities.
22. I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and offspring, says the Lord.
23. I will make it a haunt of hoot owls and a marshland; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, oracle of the Lord of hosts.
24. The Lord of hosts has sworn:As I have resolved,so shall it be;As I have planned,so shall it stand:
25. To break the Assyrian in my landand trample him on my mountains;Then his yoke shall be removed from them,and his burden from their shoulder.
26. This is the plan proposed for the whole earth,and this the hand outstretched over all the nations.
27. The Lord of hosts has planned;who can thwart him?His hand is stretched out;who can turn it back?
28. In the year that King Ahaz died, there came this oracle:
29. Do not rejoice, Philistia, not one of you,that the rod which struck you is broken;For out of the serpent’s root shall come an adder,its offspring shall be a flying saraph.
30. In my pastures the poor shall graze,and the needy lie down in safety;But I will kill your root with faminethat shall slay even your remnant.
31. Howl, O gate; cry out, O city!Philistia, all of you melts away!For there comes a smoke from the north,without a straggler in its ranks.