Yahweh’s Plan to Break Assyrian Rule

²⁴ Yahweh of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, ^(A)just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have counseled so it will stand,

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “^(A)For this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed ^[a]throughout the whole earth.”