Add parallel Print Page Options

24 The Lord of the Heavenly Armies has sworn:

“Surely as I have planned,
    that’s what she[a] will become;[b]
and just as I have determined,
    so will it remain—
25 to crush the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke[c] will turn away from you,[d]
    and his burden from your[e] shoulders.”

26 “This is what I’ve planned
    for the whole earth,
and this is the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:24 I.e. Babylon
  2. Isaiah 14:24 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads so has she been
  3. Isaiah 14:25 I.e. Assyria’s oppressive domination
  4. Isaiah 14:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read from them
  5. Isaiah 14:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads their