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What does Isaiah 14:26 mean?

"This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations."

— Isaiah 14:26 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

23

“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

24

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25

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.

27

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

28

This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

29

Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

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