Isaiah 14

¹For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

²And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

³And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

⁴That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

⁵The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

⁶He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

⁷All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

⁸Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

⁹The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

¹⁰They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

¹¹Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.