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:
29. “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that smote you is broken; for out of the serpent’s roots comes forth an adder, and its offspring is a fiery flying serpent.
30. “And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy lie down in safety. And I shall kill your roots with scarcity of food, and it shall slay your remnant.
31. “Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke shall come from the north, and there is no stranger in his ranks.”
32. And what does one answer the messengers of a nation? “That יהוה has founded Tsiyon, and the poor of His people take refuge in it.”