Isaiah 14:1-10 ▼

1 For YHWH loves Jacob, || And has fixed again on Israel, || And given them rest on their own land, || And the sojourner has been joined to them, || And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.

2 And peoples have taken them, || And have brought them to their place, || And the house of Israel has inherited them, || On the land of YHWH, || For menservants and for maidservants, || And they have been captors of their captors, || And have ruled over their exactors.

3 And it has come to pass, || In the day of YHWH’s giving rest to you, || From your grief, and from your trouble, || And from the sharp bondage, || That has been served on you,

4 That you have taken up this allegory || Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, “How the exactor has ceased,

5 The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, || The scepter of rulers.

6 He who is striking peoples in wrath, || A striking without intermission, || He who is ruling nations in anger, || Pursuing without restraint!

7 At rest—all the earth has been quiet, || They have broken forth [into] singing.

8 Even firs have rejoiced over you, || Cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you have lain down, || The hewer does not come up against us.

9 Sheol beneath has been troubled at you, || To meet your coming in, || It is waking up Rephaim for you, || All chief ones of earth, || It has raised up from their thrones || All kings of nations.

10 All of them answer and say to you, Even you have become weak like us! You have become like to us!