Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

• “ Surely[fn] 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[fn] shoulders.”[fn]
• 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?
    
  NOTNOT
  NOTNOT

Oracle of Judgment on Philistia

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.
• 30 And the firstborn of the poor will graze,
  • and the needy will lie down in security;
• but I will cause your root to die in famine,
  • and it will kill your remnant.
• 31 Wail, gate! Cry, city!
  • Melt,[fn] Philistia, all of you!
• For smoke is coming from the north,
  • and there is no straggler in his ranks.
    
  NOTNOT
  NOTNOT

32 And what will one answer the messengers of the nation?

• That Yahweh has founded Zion,
  • and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.