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1 FOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will set them in their own land; and strangers shall accompany them, and they shall add to the house of Jacob. 2 And the Gentiles shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for men-servants and women-servants; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your anger and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve. 4 You shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the ruler ceased! the zealous one ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the peoples in wrath, smiting without instruction, who chastised the peoples in anger and persecuted them without pity. 7 The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing. Isaiah 14:1-7, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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