Isaiah 14:1-17 ▼

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.

11 Your pride and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.’

12 How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!

13 But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

15 Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

16 Those who see you will gaze at you, They will carefully consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who caused kingdoms to quake,

17 Who made the world like a wilderness And pulled down its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’