16. Those who see you will stare at youand ponder over you:‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,who shook kingdoms,
17. who made the world like a desertand overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18. All the kings of the nations lie in glory,each in his own tomb;
19. but you are cast out, away from your grave,like a loathed branch, 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 the offspring of evildoersnevermore be named!
21. Prepare slaughter for his sons 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 remnant, descendants and posterity,” declares the Lord.
23. “And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
24. The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned,so shall it be,and as I have purposed,so shall it stand,
25. that I will break the Assyrian in my land,and on my mountains trample him underfoot;and his yoke shall depart from them,and his burden from their shoulder.”
26. This is the purpose that is purposedconcerning the whole earth,and this is the hand that is stretched outover all the nations.
27. For the Lord of hosts has purposed,and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out,and who will turn it back?
28. In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
29. Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you,that the rod that struck you is broken,for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder,and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
30. And the firstborn of the poor will graze,and the needy lie down in safety;but I will kill your root with famine,and your remnant it will slay.
31. Wail, O gate; cry out, O city;melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north,and there is no straggler in his ranks.