22. “I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says the Lord.
23. “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of Hosts.
24. The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25. that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.