Isaiah 14:1-10 ▼

1 When Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and put them in their own land, then sojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

2 And the peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of Yahweh for their male and female slaves; and they will take their captors captive and will have dominion over their taskmasters.

3 And it will be in the day when Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh slavery in which you have been enslaved,

4 that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the taskmaster has ceased, And how fury has ceased!

5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

6 Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which had dominion over the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.

8 Even the cypress trees are glad over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

9 Sheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come; It wakens for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10 They will all answer and say to you, ‘Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.