[1] The LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel,
and will set them in their own land, and aliens will join them and will
cleave to the house of Jacob. [2] And the peoples will take them and bring
them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the
LORD's land as male and female slaves; they will take captive those who
were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. [3] When the
LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service
with which you were made to serve, [4] you will take up this taunt against
the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury
ceased! [5] The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of
rulers, [6] that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that
ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution. [7] The whole
earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. [8] The
cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, `Since you were
laid low, no hewer comes up against us.' [9] Sheol beneath is stirred up to
meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were
leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of
the nations. [10] All of them will speak and say to you: `You too have
become as weak as we! You have become like us!' [11] Your pomp is brought
down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you,
and worms are your covering. [12] "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day
Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the
nations low! [13] You said in your heart, `I will ascend to heaven; above
the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of
assembly in the far north; [14] I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.' [15] But you are brought
down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit. [16] Those who see you will stare
at you, and ponder over you: `Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms, [17] who made the world like a desert and overthrew its
cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?' [18] All the kings of the
nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb; [19] but you are cast out, away
from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain,
those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a
dead body trodden under foot. [20] You will not be joined with them in
burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people.
"May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named! [21] Prepare
slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they
rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities."
[22] "I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "and will cut
off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the LORD.
[23] And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water,
and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts."
[24] The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and
as I have purposed, so shall it stand, [25] that I will break the Assyrian
in my land, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke
shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder." [26] This is
the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and this is the
hand that is stretched out over all the nations. [27] For the LORD of hosts
has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who
will turn it back? [28] In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
[29] "Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smote you is
broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit
will be a flying serpent. [30] And the first-born of the poor will feed,
and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant I will slay. [31] Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear,
O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no
straggler in his ranks." [32] What will one answer the messengers of the
nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people
find refuge."

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