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14 : 1 For theLordwill have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, andwill set them in their own land, andsojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
14 : 2 Andthe peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in theLord's landas male and female slaves.They will take captive those who were their captors,and rule over those who oppressed them.
14 : 3 When theLordhas given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
14 : 4 you will take up thistaunt against the king of Babylon:How the oppressor has ceased,the insolent furyceased!
14 : 5 TheLordhas broken thestaff of the wicked,thescepter of rulers,
14 : 6 that struck the peoples in wrathwith unceasing blows,that ruled the nations in angerwith unrelenting persecution.
14 : 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;they break forth into singing.
14 : 8 The cypresses rejoice at you,the cedars of Lebanon, saying,Since you were laid low,no woodcutter comes up against us.
14 : 9 Sheol beneath is stirred upto meet you when you come;it rouses the shades to greet you,all who were leaders of the earth;it raises from their thronesall who were kings of the nations.
14 : 10 All of them will answerand say to you:You too have become as weak as we!You have become like us!
14 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,the sound of your harps;maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,and worms are your covers.
14 : 12 Howyou are fallen from heaven,O Day Star,son of Dawn!How you are cut down to the ground,you who laid the nations low!
14 : 13 You said in your heart,I will ascend to heaven;above the stars of GodI will set my throne on high;I will sit on the mount of assemblyin the far reaches of the north;
14 : 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.
14 : 15 But you are brought down to Sheol,to the far reaches of the pit.
14 : 16 Those who see you will stare at youand ponder over you:Is thisthe man who made the earth tremble,who shook kingdoms,
14 : 17 who made the world like a desertand overthrew its cities,who did not let his prisoners go home?
14 : 18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,each in his own tomb;
14 : 19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,like a loathed branch,clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,who go down to the stones of the pit,like a dead body trampled underfoot.
14 : 20 You will not be joined with them in burial,because you have destroyed your land,you have slain your people.Maythe offspring of evildoersnevermore be named!
14 : 21 Prepare slaughter for his sonsbecause of the guilt of their fathers,lest they rise and possess the earth,and fill the face of the world with cities.
14 : 22 I will rise up against them,declares theLordof hosts,and will cut off from Babylon name andremnant,descendants and posterity,declares theLord.
14 : 23 And I will make it a possession of thehedgehog,and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,declares theLordof hosts.
14 : 24 TheLordof hosts has sworn:As I have planned,so shall it be,and as I have purposed,so shall it stand,
14 : 25 thatI will break the Assyrian in my land,and on my mountains trample him underfoot;andhis yoke shall depart from them,andhis burden from their shoulder.
14 : 26 This is the purpose that is purposedconcerning the whole earth,and this isthe hand that is stretched outover all the nations.
14 : 27 For theLordof hosts has purposed,and who will annul it?His hand is stretched out,and who will turn it back?
14 : 28 In the year thatKing Ahaz died came thisoracle:
14 : 29 Rejoice not,O Philistia, all of you,thatthe rod that struck you is broken,for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,and its fruit will be aflying fiery serpent.
14 : 30 And the firstborn ofthe poor will graze,andthe needy lie down in safety;but I will kill your root with famine,and your remnant it will slay.
14 : 31 Wail, Ogate; cry out, 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.
14 : 32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?TheLordhas founded Zion,and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.