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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[a] Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

Surely[b] just as I have intended, so it shall be.
    And just as I have planned, it shall stand:
25 to break Assyria in my land,
    and I will trample him down on my mountains;
and he shall remove his yoke from them,
    and he shall remove his burden from his[c] shoulders.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:23 Literally “declaration of”
  2. Isaiah 14:24 The oath formula begins literally “If not”
  3. Isaiah 14:25 That is, their
  4. Isaiah 14:25 Hebrew “shoulder”

23 “I will turn her into a place for owls(A)
    and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,(B)
    declares the Lord Almighty.(C)

24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,(D)

“Surely, as I have planned,(E) so it will be,
    and as I have purposed, so it will happen.(F)
25 I will crush the Assyrian(G) in my land;
    on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke(H) will be taken from my people,
    and his burden removed from their shoulders.(I)

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