| 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. |
| 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, |
| 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? |
| 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! |
| 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: |
| 14 |
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? |
| 18 | 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 26 | This is
the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations. |
|
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. |
|
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. |
