MLV(i)
1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land. And the traveler will join himself with them and they will cling 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 Jehovah for servants and for handmaids. And they will take them captive whose captives they were and they will rule over their oppressors.
3 And it will happen in the day that Jehovah will give you rest from your sorrow and from your trouble and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, 4 that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased
5 Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 6 who killed* the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break forth into singing. 8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.
9 Sheol from beneath is moved for you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 They will all answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols. The worm is spread under you and worms cover you.
12 How you are fallen from heaven, O daystar, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13 And you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God and I will sit upon the mountain of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.
16 Those who see you will gaze at you. They will consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17 who made the world as a wilderness and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?
18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house. 19 But you are cast forth away from your sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot. 20 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have slain your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named everlasting.
21 Prepare you* slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities. 22 And I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of hosts and cut off from Babylon name and remnant and son and son's son, says Jehovah. 23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Jehovah of hosts.
24 Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that killed* you is broken. For out of the serpent's root will come out an adder and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor will feed and the needy will lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine and your remnant will be slain. 31 Howl, O gate, cry, O city. You are melted away, O Philistia, all of you. For there comes a smoke out of the north and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 What then will a man answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion and in her will the afflicted of his people take refuge.
3 And it will happen in the day that Jehovah will give you rest from your sorrow and from your trouble and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, 4 that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased
5 Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 6 who killed* the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break forth into singing. 8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.
9 Sheol from beneath is moved for you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 They will all answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols. The worm is spread under you and worms cover you.
12 How you are fallen from heaven, O daystar, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! 13 And you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God and I will sit upon the mountain of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.
16 Those who see you will gaze at you. They will consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17 who made the world as a wilderness and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?
18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house. 19 But you are cast forth away from your sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot. 20 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have slain your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named everlasting.
21 Prepare you* slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities. 22 And I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of hosts and cut off from Babylon name and remnant and son and son's son, says Jehovah. 23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Jehovah of hosts.
24 Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that killed* you is broken. For out of the serpent's root will come out an adder and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor will feed and the needy will lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine and your remnant will be slain. 31 Howl, O gate, cry, O city. You are melted away, O Philistia, all of you. For there comes a smoke out of the north and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 What then will a man answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion and in her will the afflicted of his people take refuge.