23. “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls,filled with swamps and marshes.I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction.I, the lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
24. The lord of Heaven’s Armies has sworn this oath:“It will all happen as I have planned.It will be as I have decided.
25. I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel;I will trample them on my mountains.My people will no longer be their slavesnor bow down under their heavy loads.
26. I have a plan for the whole earth,a hand of judgment upon all the nations.
27. The lord of Heaven’s Armies has spoken—who can change his plans?When his hand is raised,who can stop him?”
28. This message came to me the year King Ahaz died: