that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 14:25 in context
Isaiah 14:22–28
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“I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says the LORD.
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“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Armies.
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The LORD of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
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that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
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This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
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For the LORD of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
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This burden was in the year that King Ahaz died.
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