Isaiah 14:16-32 ▼

16 Your beholders look to you, they attend to you, || Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, || Shaking kingdoms?

17 He has made the world as a wilderness, || And he has broken down his cities, || He did not open the house of his bound ones.

18 All kings of nations—all of them, || Have lain down in glory, each in his house,

19 And you have been cast out of your grave, || As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, || Thrust through ones of the sword, || Going down to the sons of the pit, || As a carcass trodden down.

20 You are not united with them in burial, || For you have destroyed your land, || You have slain your people, || The seed of evildoers is not named for all time.

21 Prepare slaughter for his sons; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, || They do not rise, nor have possessed the land, || Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.

22 And I have risen up against them,” || A declaration of YHWH of Hosts, || “And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, || Name and remnant, and continuator and successor,” || A declaration of YHWH.

23 “And have made it for a possession of a hedgehog, || And ponds of waters, || And swept it with the broom of destruction,” || A declaration of YHWH of Hosts!

24 YHWH of Hosts has sworn, saying, “As I thought—so has it not been? And as I counseled—it stands;

25 To break Asshur in My land, || And I tread him down on My mountain, || And his yoke has turned from off them, || Indeed, his burden turns aside from off their shoulder.

26 This [is] the counsel that is counseled for all the earth, || And this [is] the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.

27 For YHWH of Hosts has purposed, || And who makes void? And His hand that is stretched out, || Who turns it back?”

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

29 “Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, || That the rod of your striker has been broken, || For from the root of a serpent comes out a viper, || And its fruit [is] a flying, burning serpent.

30 And the firstborn of the poor have delighted, || And the needy lie down in confidence, || And I have put to death your root with famine, || And it slays your remnant.

31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city, || You are melted, Philistia, all of you, || For smoke has come from the north, || And there is none alone in his set places.”

32 And what does one answer the messengers of a nation? That YHWH has founded Zion, || And the poor of His people take refuge in it!