22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (A)remnant, (B)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (C)hedgehog,[a] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(D)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl

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