²⁴ The Lord of heavenly forces has promised:
As I intended, so it will be;
    and as I have planned, so it will happen:
²⁵ I will break Assyria in my land;
    on my mountains I will trample it
    and remove its yoke from my people;^[a]
    his burden will be taken from their shoulders.
²⁶ This is the plan that has been made for all the earth;
    this is the hand extended over all the nations.