Isa 14
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For 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.
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And 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.
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And it shall come to pass in the day that YHWH shall give you rest from your sorrow,
and from your trouble, and from the hard service wherein you were made to serve,
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that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has
the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
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YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
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that smote the peoples in anger with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in
anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
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The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
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Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you
are laid low, no hewer is come up against us.
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Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead
for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones
all the kings of the nations.
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All they shall answer and say to you, Art you also become weak as we? are you become
like to us?
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Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is spread
under you, and worms cover you.
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How are you fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how are you cut down
to the ground, that did lay low the nations!
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And you said 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;
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
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Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
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They that see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], Is this the
man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
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that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; that let not
loose his prisoners to their home?
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All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
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But you are cast forth away from your sepulcher 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.
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You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
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Prepare you 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.
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And I will rise up against them, says YHWH of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name
and remnant, and son and son`s son, says YHWH.
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I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will
sweep it with the besom of destruction, says YHWH of hosts.
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YHWH of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass;
and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
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that I will break the Assyrian 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 shoulder.
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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that
is stretched out upon all the nations.
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For YHWH of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched
out, and who shall turn it back?
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In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
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Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that smote you is broken; for
out of the serpent`s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent.
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And 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.
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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you are melted away, O Philistia, all of you; for there
comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
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What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That YHWH has founded Zion,
and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.