14. I will ascend above the high places of the clouds— I will make myself like Elyon.”
15. Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest parts of the Pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,
17. who made the world a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who never opened the house of his prisoners?”
18. All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.
19. But you are cast out of your tomb as a discarded branch, garment of the slain, pierced with a sword, dumped into a stony pit, a corpse trodden underfoot.
20. You will not join with them in burial, because you ruined your land, you slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.
21. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, so they would not rise up and possess the land, or fill the face of the earth with cities.
22. “For I will rise up against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offshoot and offspring,” declares Adonai.
23. “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
24. Adonai Tzva’ot has sworn, saying: “Surely, as I thought it, so it will be. As I have purposed, so it will stand.
25. I will break Assyria in My land. On My mountains I will trample him. Then his yoke will be taken off them, his burden removed from their shoulder.
26. This is the purpose planned for the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.”
27. For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?
28. In the year king Ahaz died came this burden:
29. Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken. For from the serpent’s root comes a viper and its fruit will be a flying serpent.
30. The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety. I will kill your root with famine, and your survivors will be slain.