For the Lord will
have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land: and the strangers
shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave
to the house of Jacob.
02 And the people shall take them, and bring them
to their place: and the house of Israel shall
possess them in the land of the Lord for servants
and handmaids: and they shall take them captives,
whose captives they were; and they shall rule
over their oppressors.
03 And it shall come to pass in the day that the
Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and
from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein
thou wast made to serve,
04 That thou shalt take up this proverb against
the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
05 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked,
and the sceptre of the rulers.
06 He who smote the people in wrath with a
continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in
anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
07 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they
break forth into singing.
08 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the
cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid
down, no feller is come up against us.
09 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet
thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for
thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it
hath raised up from their thrones all the kings
of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art
thou also become weak as we? art thou become like
unto us?
11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the
noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under
thee, and the worms cover thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon
thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and
destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the
house of his prisoners?
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18 All the kings of the nations, even all of
them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an
abominable branch, and as the raiment of those
that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that
go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase
trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain
thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be
renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the
iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise,
nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the
world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, saith the
Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name,
and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
23 I will also make it a possession for the
bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it
with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of
hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely
as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and
as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and
upon my mountains tread him under foot: then
shall his yoke depart from off them, and his
burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the
whole earth: and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who
shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out,
and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this
burden.
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the
rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of
the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice,
and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and
the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will
kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy
remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come
from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone
in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of
the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and
the poor of his people shall trust in it.
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