The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 14

 The Book of the Prophet Isaiah 14

1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their places: and the house of Israel shall possess them for servants and for handmaids in the land of the Lord: and they shall take captive those who took them captive, and rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass, in the day that God shall give thee rest from thy labor, and from thy trembling, and from the hard bondage wherein they made thee serve:

4 Then shalt thou take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! The golden city is finished!

5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. 

6 He who struck the peoples with fury, with endless plagues, who ruled the nations in anger, is now persecuted, and no one can restrain him.

7 He is at rest, the whole earth is at rest! They shout for joy.

8 Even the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you fell, no one has come up against us to cut us down."

9 Sheol from the underworld is in turmoil for you, to meet you at your coming; it has awakened the dead for you, and all the princes of the earth, and raised all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10 They will all answer and say to you, "You have also become sick like us, and you have become like us."

11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol with the noise of your viols; the worms will spread themselves under you, and the worms will cover you. 

12 How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, 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 you will be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.

16 Those who see you will gaze upon you and consider you, and say, "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who made kingdoms tremble?

17 Who made the world like a wilderness and laid waste its cities, who did not let his captives go free to their homes?"

18 All the kings of the nations, every one of them, lie down in honor, each in his own house. 

19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like a garment of slain men pierced by a sword, like those who go down to the stones of a den, like a dead body trampled underfoot.

20 You will not be joined with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and killed your people; the offspring of the wicked will not be named forever.

21 Prepare slaughter for the children because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise up and possess the land, and fill the world with cities.

22 For I will rise up against them, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will cut off from Babylon name and waste, son and grandson, declares the Lord.

23 And I will make her a possession of owls and pools of water; and I will sweep her with the broom of destruction, declares the Lord of hosts.