Isaiah 14:1-7 ▼

1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners (Gentiles) will join them [as proselytes] and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel).

2 The peoples will take them along and bring them to their own place (Judea), and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male and female servants; and they will take captive those whose captives they have been, and they will rule over their [former] oppressors.

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

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

5 “The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the [tyrant] rulers

6 Which used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows, Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.

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