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14 : 1 The LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
14 : 2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD`s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
14 : 3 On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage,
14 : 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!
14 : 5 The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
14 : 6 which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.
14 : 7 All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.
14 : 8 Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down."
14 : 9 The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you-- all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones-- all those who were kings over the nations.
14 : 10 They will all respond, they will say to you, "You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us."
14 : 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
14 : 12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
14 : 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14 : 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
14 : 15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
14 : 16 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,
14 : 17 the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?"
14 : 18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
14 : 19 But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
14 : 20 you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
14 : 21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
14 : 22 I will rise up against them, declares the LORD Almighty. "I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants," declares the LORD.
14 : 23 I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction, declares the LORD Almighty.
14 : 24 The LORD Almighty has sworn, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.
14 : 25 I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."
14 : 26 This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
14 : 27 For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
14 : 28 This oracle came in the year King Ahaz died:
14 : 29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
14 : 30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.
14 : 31 Wail, O gate! Howl, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! A cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there is not a straggler in its ranks.
14 : 32 What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."