Isaiah 14:1-17 ▼

1 For YHWH will have compassion on Jacob, and again He will choose Israel, and He will settle them in their own land, and the sojourner will join them with them, and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

2 And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of YHWH as menservants and as maidservants, and they will become captives to their captors, and they will rule over their oppressors.

3 And it will come to pass in the day of YHWH giving rest to you from your pain and from your trouble and the hard servitude that has been served upon you,

4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How the oppressor has ceased! The boisterous rage has ceased!

5 YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers—

6 the one striking the peoples in wrath, a striking with no turning aside, one ruling the nations in anger, pursuing without restraint.

7 All the earth is at rest and quiet; they burst forth with singing,

8 even the cypress trees rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you have been laid low, the cutter has not come up against us.”

9 Sheol from beneath stirs itself for you, to meet you at your coming; it rouses for you the Rephaim, all the chief ones of the earth; it raises up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All of them will answer and will say to you, “Even you have become weak like us, have you become like us.”

11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; under you is spread out the maggot, and your covering is the worm.

12 How you have fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O weakener of nations!

13 For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; above the stars of God I will raise my throne. And I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like to the Most High.”

15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.

16 Those who see you will gaze at you, they will ponder at you: “Is this the man who made tremble the earth, the one shaking kingdoms,

17 setting the world as a wilderness; its cities he has broken down; his captives he has not released to their house?”