23. “I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animalsand covered with pools of stagnant water.I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,”says the Lord who commands armies.
24. The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:“Be sure of this:Just as I have intended, so it will be;just as I have planned, it will happen.
25. I will break Assyria in my land,I will trample them underfoot on my hills.Their yoke will be removed from my people,the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.
26. This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;my hand is ready to strike all the nations.”
27. Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan,and who can possibly frustrate it?His hand is ready to strike,and who can possibly stop it?
28. In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed: