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21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
    because of the sin of their ancestors.[a]
Let them not rise and take possession of the earth
    or fill up the face of the world with cities.”
22 “And I will rise up against them,”

declares[b] Yahweh of hosts,

“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,
    and offspring and posterity,”

declares[c] Yahweh.

23 “And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,
    and pools of water,
    and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,”

declares[d] Yahweh of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:21 Or “fathers”
  2. Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
  4. Isaiah 14:23 Literally “declaration of”