22. "I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the Lord.
23. "I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.
24. The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,
25. to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.
26. This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
27. For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"
28. In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came: