Isaiah 14:24

14:24 ¹ The Lord who commands armies makes this solemn vow:

“Be sure of this:

Just as I have intended, so it will be;

just as I have planned, it will happen.

Isaiah 14:26-27

14:26 This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth;

my hand is ready to strike all the nations.” ² 

14:27 Indeed, ³  the Lord who commands armies has a plan,

and who can possibly frustrate it?

His hand is ready to strike,

and who can possibly stop it? ⁴ 

Isaiah 20:2-5

20:2 At that time the Lord announced through ⁵  Isaiah son of Amoz: “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments ⁶  and barefoot. 20:3 Later the Lord explained, “In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush, 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old. They will be in undergarments and barefoot, with the buttocks exposed; the Egyptians will be publicly humiliated. ⁷  20:5 Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed. ⁸ 

Isaiah 46:10-11

46:10 who announces the end from the beginning

and reveals beforehand ⁹  what has not yet occurred,

who says, ‘My plan will be realized,

I will accomplish what I desire,’

46:11 who summons an eagle ¹⁰  from the east,

from a distant land, one who carries out my plan.

Yes, I have decreed, ¹¹ 

yes, I will bring it to pass;

I have formulated a plan,

yes, I will carry it out.

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ¹² 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ¹³  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

¹ sn Having announced the downfall of the Chaldean empire, the Lord appends to this prophecy a solemn reminder that the Assyrians, the major Mesopotamian power of Isaiah’s day, would be annihilated, foreshadowing what would subsequently happen to Babylon and the other hostile nations.

² tn Heb “and this is the hand that is outstretched over all the nations.”

³ tn Or “For” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “His hand is outstretched and who will turn it back?”

⁵ tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”

⁶ tn The word used here (עָרוֹם, ’arom) sometimes means “naked,” but here it appears to mean simply “lightly dressed,” i.e., stripped to one’s undergarments. See HALOT 883 s.v. עָרוֹם. The term also occurs in vv. 3, 4.

⁷ tn Heb “lightly dressed and barefoot, and bare with respect to the buttocks, the nakedness of Egypt.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they will be afraid and embarrassed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their beauty.”

⁹ tn Or “from long ago”; KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV “from ancient times.”

¹⁰ tn Or, more generally, “a bird of prey” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV; see 18:6).

¹¹ tn Heb “spoken”; KJV “I have spoken it.”

¹² tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

¹³ tn Aram “strikes against.”