14For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.H3068H7355H3290H977H3478H3240H127H1616H3867H5596H1004H3290 2Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.H5971H3947H935H4725H1004H3478H5157H127H3068H5650H8198H7617H7617H7287H5065 3It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,H3117H3068H5117H6090H7267H7186H5656H5647 4that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!H5375H4912H4428H894H559H5065H7673H4062H7673 5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers;H3068H7665H4294H7563H7626H4910 6He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.H5221H5971H5678H1115H5627H4347H7287H1471H639H4783H1097H2820 7The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.H776H5117H8252H6476H7440 8Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'H1265H8055H730H3844H7901H3772H5927 9"Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations.H7585H7264H7125H935H5782H7496H6260H776H6965H3678H4428H1471 10They all shall speak and say to you: 'Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?H6030H559H2470H4911 11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.'H1347H3381H7585H1998H5035H7415H3331H8438H4374 12"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!H5307H8064H1966H1121H7837H3213H1438H776H2522H1471 13For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;H559H3824H5927H8064H7311H3678H4605H3556H410H3427H2022H4150H3411H6828 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'H5927H1116H5645H1819H5945 15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.H3381H7585H3411H953 16"Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,H7200H7688H995H376H776H7264H7493H4467 17Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'H7760H8398H4057H2040H5892H6605H1004H615 18"All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;H4428H1471H7901H3519H376H1004 19But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.H7993H6913H8581H5342H3830H2026H2944H2719H3381H68H953H6297H947 20You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.H3161H6900H7843H776H2026H5971H2233H7489H5769H7121 21Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."H3559H4293H1121H5771H1H1077H6965H3423H776H4390H6440H8398H6145H5892 22"For I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity," says the LORD.H6965H5002H3068H6635H3772H894H8034H7605H5209H5220H5002H3068 23"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.H7760H4180H7090H98H4325H2894H4292H8045H5002H3068H6635 24The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:H3068H6635H7650H559H1819H3289H6965 25That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders.H7665H804H776H2022H947H5923H5493H5448H5493H7926 26This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.H6098H3289H776H3027H5186H1471 27For the LORD of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?"H3068H6635H3289H6565H3027H5186H7725 28This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.H8141H4428H271H4194H4853 29"Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For out of the serpent's roots will come forth a viper, And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.H8055H6429H7626H5221H7665H5175H8328H3318H6848H6529H8314H5774H8314 30The firstborn of the poor will feed, And the needy will lie down in safety; I will kill your roots with famine, And it will slay your remnant.H1060H1800H7462H34H7257H983H4191H8328H7458H2026H7611 31Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! All you of Philistia are dissolved; For smoke will come from the north, And no one will be alone in his appointed times."H3213H8179H2199H5892H6429H4127H935H6828H6227H909H4151 32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.H6030H4397H1471H3068H3245H6726H6041H5971H2620
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