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Chapter 14 |
| 1 | For the LORD
will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own
land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the
house of Jacob. |
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2 | And the people shall take them, and bring them to
their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives
they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. |
| 3 | And 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,
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| 4 | That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! |
| 5 | The LORD
hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. |
| 6 |
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the
nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. |
| 7 | The whole
earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. |
| 8 | Yea,
the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou
art laid down, no feller is come up against us. |
| 9 | Hell from
beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead
for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations. |
| 10 | All they shall speak and say
unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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| 11 | Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the
worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. |
| 12 | How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations! |
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13 | For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the
north: |
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| I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High. |
| 15 | Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to
the sides of the pit. |
| 16 | They that see thee shall narrowly look upon
thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to
tremble, that did shake kingdoms; |
| 17 | That made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners? |
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| All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in
glory, every one in his own house. |
| 19 | But thou art cast out of thy
grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain,
thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a
carcase trodden under feet. |
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20 | Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall never be renowned. |
| 21 | Prepare slaughter for his
children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess
the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. |
| 22 | For I will
rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the
name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD. |
| 23 | I will also
make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it
with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 24 | The LORD of
hosts hath 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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25 | 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
shoulders. |
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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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| 27 | For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his
hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? |
| 28 | In the year
that king Ahaz died was this burden. |
| 29 | Rejoice not thou, whole
Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the
serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent. |
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30 | And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he
shall slay thy remnant. |
| 31 | Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none
shall be alone in his appointed times. |
| 32 | What shall one then answer
the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of
his people shall trust in it. |
