For the Lord will have mercy on Ya῾aqov, and will yet choose Yisra᾽el, and set them in their own land: and the stranger shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Ya῾aqov.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Yisra᾽el shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

And it shall come to pass on the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve,

that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Bavel, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,

that smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Levanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

She᾽ol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirs up the shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

They all shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like us?

Thy pomp is brought down to She᾽ol, and the noise of thy lutes: worms are spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O bright star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst rule over the nations!

For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the farthest north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to She᾽ol, to the depths of the pit.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abhorred branch, dressed in the garment of the slain, thrust through with a sword; like them that go down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under feet.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: may the seed of evildoers nevermore be named.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land; for the face of the world would be filled with enemies.

For I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Bavel name, and remnant, and offspring and posterity, says the Lord.

I will also make it a possession for wild birds, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so has it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

that I will break Ashshur in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

In the year that king Aĥaz died was this burden.

Rejoice not thou, O Peleshet entire, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and his fruit shall be a venomous flying serpent.

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, entire Peleshet, melt in fear: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and there shall be no straggler in his ranks.

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Żiyyon, and the poor of his people shall shelter in it.