16. “Those who see you stare at you, and ponder over you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook reigns,
17. who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who would not open the house of his prisoners?’
18. “All the sovereigns of the gentiles, all of them, were laid in esteem, everyone in his own house;
19. but you have been thrown from your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled corpse.
20. “You are not joined with them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and slain your people. Let the seed of evil-doers never be mentioned.
21. “Prepare his children for slaughter, because of the crookedness of their fathers, lest they rise up and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22. “And I shall rise up against them,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and shall cut off from Baḇel the name and remnant, and offspring and descendant,” declares יהוה.
23. “And I shall make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; and shall sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares יהוה of hosts.
24. יהוה of hosts has sworn, saying, “Truly, as I have planned, so shall it be; and as I have purposed, so it stands:
25. “To break Ashshur in My land, and tread him down on My mountains. And his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders.
26. “This is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
27. “For יהוה of hosts has counselled, and who annuls it? And His hand that is stretched out, who turns it back?”
28. This is the message which came in the year that Sovereign Aḥaz died: