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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The resident alien will join them and be united with the house of Jacob. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the LORD's land. They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When the LORD gives you rest from your pain, torment, and the hard labor you were forced to do, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say: How the oppressor has quieted down, and how the raging has become quiet! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The whole earth is calm and at rest; people shout with a ringing cry. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: "Since you have been laid low, no lumberjack has come against us." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Sheol below is eager to greet your coming, stirring up the spirits of the departed for you--all the rulers of the earth--making all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They all respond to you, saying, "You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13You said to yourself, "I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods' assembly, in the remotest parts of the North. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will ascend above the highest clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But you will be brought down to Sheol into the deepest regions of the Pit. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Those who see you will stare at you; they will look closely at you: "Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble, who shook the kingdoms, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home?" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18All the kings of the nations lie in splendor, each in his own tomb. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But you are thrown out without a grave, like a worthless branch, covered by those slain with the sword and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You will not join them in burial, because you destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be mentioned again. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or fill the surface of the earth with cities. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"I will rise up against them"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies--"and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity"--this is the LORD's declaration. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"I will make her a swampland and a region for herons, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction." This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The LORD of Armies has sworn: As I have purposed, so it will be; as I have planned it, so it will happen. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I will break Assyria in my land; I will tread him down on my mountain. Then his yoke will be taken from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulders. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26This is the plan prepared for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out against all the nations. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The LORD of Armies himself has planned it; therefore, who can stand in its way? It is his hand that is outstretched, so who can turn it back? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came: |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Don't rejoice, all of you in Philistia, because the rod of the one who struck you is broken. For a viper will come from the root of a snake, and from its egg comes a flying serpent. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then the firstborn of the poor will be well fed, and the impoverished will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root with hunger, and your remnant will be slain. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Wail, you gates! Cry out, city! Tremble with fear, all Philistia! For a cloud of dust is coming from the north, and there is no one missing from the invader's ranks. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation? The LORD has founded Zion, and his oppressed people find refuge in her. |
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