Isaiah 14

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1. 1The LORD will have mercy on Jacob and will once again choose Israel, settling them back in their own land. Foreigners will join them there, uniting themselves with the house of Jacob.
2. 2The people will take them and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the land of the LORD as servants and handmaids. They will take captive those who once held them captive and will rule over their oppressors.
3. 3When the day comes that the LORD gives you relief from your sorrow, your fear, and the harsh slavery you were forced to endure,
4. 4You will recite this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, 'How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!'
5. 5The LORD has snapped the staff of the wicked and shattered the scepter of tyrant rulers—
6. 6He who struck the people in wrath with relentless blows, who ruled the nations in anger, is now persecuted, and no one stops it.
7. 7The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.
8. 8Yes, the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon say, "Since you have fallen, no woodcutter has come against us."
9. 9Hell from below stirs to greet you at your arrival. It rouses the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10. 10Every one of them will speak up and say to you, "So you've become as weak as we are? You've ended up just like us?"
11. 11Your pomp is brought down to the grave, along with the sound of your viols. The worm is spread beneath you, and worms cover you.
12. 12How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!
13. 13You said in your heart, "I will climb up to heaven! I will raise my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, far away in the north!
14. 14I will rise above the tops of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"
15. 15Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the depths of the pit.
16. 16Those who see you will stare and study your face, saying, "Is this really the man who made the earth tremble? The one who shook entire kingdoms?
17. 17The one who turned the world into a wasteland, demolished its cities, and never let his prisoners go home?"
18. 18All the kings of the nations, every one of them, lie in glory, each in his own tomb.
19. 19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the clothing of those who are slain, pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trampled underfoot.
20. 20You won't be given a proper burial like other kings, because you destroyed your own land and slaughtered your own people. The descendants of evildoers will never be renowned.
21. 21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22. 22"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts. "I will wipe out from Babylon the name, every remnant, son, and nephew," says the LORD.
23. 23I will turn it into a place for the bittern, with pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.
24. 24The LORD of hosts has sworn an oath: "What I have planned will absolutely happen. What I have decided will stand:
25. 25I will crush the Assyrian in my land and trample him on my mountains. His yoke will be lifted from my people, and his burden will fall from their shoulders."
26. 26This is the plan the LORD has laid out for the whole earth. This is the hand he has stretched out over every nation.
27. 27The LORD of hosts has made his plan—who can stop it? His hand is stretched out—who can push it back?
28. 28This message came in the year that King Ahaz died.
29. 29Do not rejoice, all of Philistia, because the rod that struck you is broken. From the serpent's root will come a cockatrice, and its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
30. 30The poorest of the poor will find food to eat, and the needy will rest in safety. But I will starve your roots with famine, and whatever is left of you will be killed.
31. 31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Philistia, are dissolved: for there will come from the north a smoke, and none will be alone in his appointed times.
32. 32What answer will be given to the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has established Zion, and the poor of his people will trust in it.