Isaiah 14
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God’s People Restored
1For Adonai will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The outsider will join himself with them and will cling to the house of Jacob.
2The peoples will take them and escort them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the land of Adonai as servants and handmaids. They will take their captors captive, and rule over their oppressors.
Taunt Against Babylon’s King
3Now in the day when Adonai will give you rest from your sorrow and your turmoil, and from the hard service you were forced to do,
4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say: “How the taskmaster has ceased! The raging oppressor, exacter of gold, has ceased!
5Adonai has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
6which struck the people in wrath with continual strokes, which ruled the nations in fury, with relentless persecution.
7The whole earth is at rest, and quiet. They break forth with a ringing cry!
8Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”
9Sheol from below is excited about you, to meet you at your coming! He stirs up the dead spirits for you, even the chief ones of the earth. He makes all the kings of the nations rise up from their thrones.
10They all answer and say to you: “Even you have become as weak as us? Have you become like us?
11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”
Shining One Fallen From Heaven
12How you have fallen from heaven, O brightstar, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the earth, you who made the nations prostrate!
13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north.
14I will ascend above the high places of the clouds— I will make myself like Elyon.”
15Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest parts of the Pit.
16Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,
17who made the world a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who never opened the house of his prisoners?”
18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.
19But you are cast out of your tomb as a discarded branch, garment of the slain, pierced with a sword, dumped into a stony pit, a corpse trodden underfoot.
20You will not join with them in burial, because you ruined your land, you slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.
21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, so they would not rise up and possess the land, or fill the face of the earth with cities.
22“For I will rise up against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offshoot and offspring,” declares Adonai.
23“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, with marshes of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
24Adonai Tzva’ot has sworn, saying: “Surely, as I thought it, so it will be. As I have purposed, so it will stand.
25I will break Assyria in My land. On My mountains I will trample him. Then his yoke will be taken off them, his burden removed from their shoulder.
26This is the purpose planned for the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.”
27For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?
Doom of Philistia
28In the year king Ahaz died came this burden:
29Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken. For from the serpent’s root comes a viper and its fruit will be a flying serpent.
30The firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety. I will kill your root with famine, and your survivors will be slain.
31Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.
32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? For Adonai has founded Zion, and the afflicted of His people will find refuge in her.
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Isaias (Isaiah) 14
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1HER time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make them rest upon their own ground. And the stranger shall be joined with them, and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.
2And the people shall take them and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids. And they shall make them captives that had taken them: and shall subdue their oppressors.
3And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard bondage wherewith thou didst serve before,
4Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?
5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,
6That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
7The whole earth is quiet and still: it is glad and hath rejoiced.
8The fir-trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut us down.
9Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming: it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.
10All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we. Thou art become like unto us.
11Thy pride is brought down to hell: thy carcass is fallen down. Under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? How art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?
13And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.
14I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the most High.
15But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.
16They that shall see thee shall turn toward thee and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,
17That made the world a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
18All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.
19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch, defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword: and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.
20Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.
21Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud, and the offspring, saith the Lord.
23And I will make it a possession for the ericius, and pools of waters: and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.
24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be. And as I have purposed,
25So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke shall be taken away from them: and his burden shall be taken off their shoulder.
26This is the counsel that I have purposed upon all the earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.
27For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it away?
28In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
29Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.
30And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine, and I will kill thy remnant.
31Howl, O gate: cry, O city. All Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.
32And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.
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