You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend into heaven
and exalt my throne above the stars of God.
I will rule on the mountain of the congregation,
on the highest place of the sacred mountain.
I will rise past the tops of the clouds
and rival the Most High God!’
Yet down to the underworld you go—
into the depths of the pit!
Everyone will stare at you and ponder your fate, saying,
‘Is this the man who shook the earth
and made the kingdoms tremble?
Is this the man who made the world a desert
and overthrew its cities and refused to free his prisoners
and let them return home?’
Every king at death lies in state,
each in his crypt of splendor,
but you are an unburied, trampled corpse,
thrown out of your grave like a rotten stick
and wrapped in the bloody clothing
of those slain by the sword.
You will not have a burial like them,
because you destroyed both your land and your people.
May your wicked descendants never be mentioned again!
Prepare to execute his sons because of the sins of their father.
May they never rise to conquer the earth
and cover the world with their cities.”
“I will rise up against them,”
declares the Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies.
“I will blot out the name Babylon and her survivors,
her offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord YAHWEH.
“I will turn it into a swampland and a place for wild animals.
Like dirt on the floor I will sweep it away
with the broom of destruction,”
declares the Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies.
The Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies,
makes this solemn decree:
“Be sure of this: Just as I have planned, so it will be.
Every purpose of my heart will surely come to pass.
I will crush the Assyrians who invade my land.
I will trample them on my mountains.
Their yoke of slavery will be removed from my people
and their heavy burden from their shoulders.
This is the plan that I have determined for the entire world.
I will accomplish it by the demonstration of my mighty power
throughout the earth!”
For the Lord YAHWEH, the Commander of Angel Armies,
has an amazing strategy, and who can thwart him?
When he moves in power, who can stop him?
This prophecy came to Isaiah in the year King Ahaz died:
Don’t rejoice too soon, you Philistines,
just because the rod that beat you is broken!
A snake will sprout from the root of that serpent,
and his descendant will be like a flying, fiery, burning one.
And through him the poorest of the poor will find pasture
and the needy will lie down in peace.
The Lord will starve the root of the Philistines with a famine
that will annihilate your survivors.
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt with fear, Philistia!
For a cloud of smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler among them.
And what will be the answer of the messengers of the nations?
That the Lord has laid the foundation of Zion,
and in her his needy ones will find shelter.
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