Isaiah 14:13-32 ▼

13 For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; above the stars of God I will raise my throne. And I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like to the Most High.”

15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.

16 Those who see you will gaze at you, they will ponder at you: “Is this the man who made tremble the earth, the one shaking kingdoms,

17 setting the world as a wilderness; its cities he has broken down; his captives he has not released to their house?”

18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie down in glory, each man in his own house;

19 and you are cast out from your grave like a detested branch, the garment of those who are slain, pierced by the sword, going down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled.

20 You will not be joined with them in the grave, because your land you have destroyed, your people you have killed—the seed of evildoers let not be mentioned forever!

21 Prepare slaughter for his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers—lest they rise up and possess the land and fill the face of the world with cities!

22 “And I will rise up against them,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “And I will cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and offspring, and posterity,” a declaration of YHWH.

23 “Into a possession into a possession for the owl, and ponds of waters, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

24 YHWH of Hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely as I have purposed, so it will be, and as I have counseled, so it will stand:

25 To break Assyria in My land, and on My mountains I will trample him! And his yoke will be turned aside from them and his burden will be turned aside from their shoulders.”

26 This is the counsel that is counseled for all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

27 For YHWH of Hosts has counseled, and who can break it? And His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?

28 In the year of the death of King Ahaz came this burden:

29 Not do rejoice, Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken—for from the root of the snake will come forth a viper, and its fruit is a flying fiery serpent!

30 And the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will stretch out in safety; and I will kill your root with famine and it will slay your remnant.

31 Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, Philistia, all of you—for smoke will come from the north, and none is alone in its ranks.

32 And what will he answer to the messengers of the nation? That YHWH has founded Zion, and in it the poor of His people will take refuge.