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Isaiah 14

¹For YHWH will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. ²And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of YHWH for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. ³And it shall come to pass in the day that YHWH shall give thee rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service wherein you wast made to serve, ⁴that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ⁵YHWH hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; ⁶that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained. ⁷The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. ⁸Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no hewer is come up against us. ⁹Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at your coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ¹⁰All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art you also become weak as we? art you become like unto us? ¹¹Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. ¹²How are you fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! ¹³And you saidst in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. ¹⁵Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. ¹⁶They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; ¹⁷that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home? ¹⁸All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. ¹⁹But you are cast forth away from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot. ²⁰Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because you hast destroyed your land, you hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever. ²¹Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. ²²And I will rise up against them, saith YHWH of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah. ²³I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith YHWH of hosts. ²⁴Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: ²⁵that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depare from off them, and his burden depare from off their shoulder. ²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷For YHWH of hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? ²⁸In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. ²⁹Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be slain. ³¹Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you are melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. ³²What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That YHWH hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

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