Isaiah 14:4-10
Read Isaiah 14 in full →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.