Isaiah 14:21-32

Prepare to execute his sons because of the sins of their father. May they never rise to conquer the earth and cover the world with their cities.” “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies. “I will blot out the name Babylon and her survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord YAHWEH. “I will turn it into a swampland and a place for wild animals. Like dirt on the floor I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies. The Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, makes this solemn decree: “Be sure of this: Just as I have planned, so it will be. Every purpose of my heart will surely come to pass. I will crush the Assyrians who invade my land. I will trample them on my mountains. Their yoke of slavery will be removed from my people and their heavy burden from their shoulders. This is the plan that I have determined for the entire world. I will accomplish it by the demonstration of my mighty power throughout the earth!” For the Lord YAHWEH, the Commander of Angel Armies, has an amazing strategy, and who can thwart him? When he moves in power, who can stop him? This prophecy came to Isaiah in the year King Ahaz died: Don’t rejoice too soon, you Philistines, just because the rod that beat you is broken! A snake will sprout from the root of that serpent, and his descendant will be like a flying, fiery, burning one. And through him the poorest of the poor will find pasture and the needy will lie down in peace. The Lord will starve the root of the Philistines with a famine that will annihilate your survivors. Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt with fear, Philistia! For a cloud of smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler among them. And what will be the answer of the messengers of the nations? That the Lord has laid the foundation of Zion, and in her his needy ones will find shelter.