16 Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this (A)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    (B)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;[a]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like a loathed branch,
(C)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the pit,
    like a dead body trampled underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
    because you have destroyed your land,
    you have slain your people.

“May (D)the offspring of evildoers
    nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
    (E)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the face of the world with cities.”

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and (F)remnant, (G)descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the (H)hedgehog,[b] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(I)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,
25 that (J)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (K)his yoke shall depart from them,
    and (L)his burden from their shoulder.”

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
    concerning the whole earth,
and this is (M)the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.
27 (N)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
    and who will annul it?
(O)His hand is stretched out,
    and who will turn it back?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:18 Hebrew house
  2. Isaiah 14:23 Possibly porcupine, or owl

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