Israel’s Restoration and Dominion
When Yahweh will ahave compassion on Jacob and again bchoose Israel, and put them in their own land, then csojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And 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 they will take their captors captive and will have dominion over their taskmasters.
3 And 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, 4 that you will atake up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How bthe taskmaster has ceased,
And how fury has ceased!
5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers
6 aWhich 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 spirits of the dead, all the leaders 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 harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
12 How you have afallen from heaven,
O 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 assembly
In 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 carefully consider you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who caused kingdoms to quake,
17 Who made the world like a awilderness
And pulled down its cities,
Who bdid not allow his prisoners to go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own place.
19 But you have been acast out of your grave
Like an abhorred branch,
Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the bpit
Like 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 slaughter
Because of the ainiquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And 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 bdestruction,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
Yahweh’s Plan to Break Assyrian Rule
24 Yahweh 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, 25 to 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?”
An Oracle Concerning Philistia
28 In the ayear that King Ahaz died this boracle came:
29 “Do not be glad, O aPhilistia, all of you,
Because the rod that bstruck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a cviper will come out,
And its fruit will be a dflying fiery serpent.
30 And the foremost aof the poor will eat,
And the needy will lie down in security;
I will put to death your root with bfamine,
And it will kill off your remnant.
31 Wail, O agate; cry, O city;
Melt away, O bPhilistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the cnorth,
And dthere is no straggler in his ranks.
32 How then will one answer the amessengers of the nation?
That bYahweh has founded Zion,
And cthe afflicted of His people will take refuge in it.”