1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob,
2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place:
3And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
4that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,
5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
10All they shall speak and say unto thee,
11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols:
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven,
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying,
17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
18All the kings of the nations, even all of them,
19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,
20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
22For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts,
23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying,
25That I will break the Assyrian in my land,
26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:
27For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?
28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina,
30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed,
31Howl, O gate; cry, O city;
32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?