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22 “And I will rise up against them,”

declares[a] Yahweh of hosts,

“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,
    and offspring and posterity,”

declares[b] Yahweh.

23 “And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,
    and pools of water,
    and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,”

declares[c] Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

Surely[d] just as I have intended, so it shall be.
    And just as I have planned, it shall stand:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
  2. Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Isaiah 14:23 Literally “declaration of”
  4. Isaiah 14:24 The oath formula begins literally “If not”