Isaiah 14
Israel’s Restoration and Dominion
14When Yahweh will ahave compassion on Jacob and again bchoose Israel, and 1put them in their own land, then csojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2And the peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the ahouse of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of Yahweh bfor their male and female slaves; and 1they will take their captors captive and will have dominion over their taskmasters.
3And it will be in the day when Yahweh gives you arest from your pain and turmoil and harsh slavery in which you have been enslaved, 4that you will atake up this 1taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, “How bthe taskmaster has ceased,And how 2fury has ceased!
5“Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of rulers6aWhich used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,Which had dominion over the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.7“The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;They abreak forth into shouts of joy.8“Even the acypress trees are glad over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’9“aSheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come;It wakens for you the 1spirits of the dead, all the 2leaders of the earth;It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.10“aThey will all answer and say to you,‘Even you have been made weak as we,You have become like us.11‘Your apride and the music of your harpsHave been brought down to Sheol;Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath youAnd worms are your covering.’12“How you have afallen from heaven,O 1,bstar of the morning, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the earth,You who have weakened the nations!13“But you said in your heart,‘I will aascend to heaven;I will braise my throne above the stars of God,And I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the recesses of the north.14‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;aI will make myself like the Most High.’15“Nevertheless you awill be brought down to Sheol,To the recesses of the pit.16“Those who see you will gaze at you,They will 1carefully consider you, saying,‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,Who caused kingdoms to quake,17Who made the world like a awildernessAnd pulled down its cities,Who bdid not 1allow his prisoners to go home?’18“All the kings of the nations lie in glory,Each in his own 1place.19“But you have been acast out of your graveLike an abhorred branch,1Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,Who go down to the stones of the bpitLike a ctrampled corpse.20“You will not be united with them in burial,Because you have ruined your country,You have killed your people.May the aseed of evildoers not be called upon forever.21“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the ainiquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities.”22“I will rise up against them,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon aname and remnant, boffspring and posterity,” declares Yahweh. 23“I will also make it a possession for the ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of 1,bdestruction,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
Yahweh’s Plan to Break Assyrian Rule
24Yahweh of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, ajust as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have counseled so it will stand, 25to abreak Assyria in My land, and I will trod him down on My mountains. Then his byoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder. 26“This is the acounsel that is counseled against the whole earth; and this is the bhand that is stretched out against all the nations. 27“For aYahweh of hosts has counseled, and who can thwart it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”