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 Yahweh of hosts.
24. Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely 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 shoulders.”
26. This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations.
27. For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
28. In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:
29. You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.