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OEB ISA Chapter 14

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14 For the Lord will take pity on Jacob, he will elect Israel once more and settle them on their own land: resident foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the household 2 of Jacob. (Foreign) people will take them and bring them to their place; and the household of Israel will employ them in the Lord’s land as men-servants and maid-servants, thus reducing their erstwhile captors to captivity, and lording it over those who had been their taskmasters.

3 Then, in the day that the Lord gives you rest from your toil and turmoil and from the hard service that was 4 laid upon you, you will take up this taunt-song over the King of Babylon, and say:

how still the oppressor is grown!

How still is the insolent raging!

5 The Lord has broken the staff

of the godless, the sceptre of tyrants,

6 who smote the peoples in fury

with unremitting stroke,

who trod down the nations in anger

with unrelenting tread.

7 All earth is at rest, is quiet,

they break into happy cries.

8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at they fate,

and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

‘Since you have been laid low,

no woodsman is come to destroy us.’

9 Sheol beneath is a-quiver,

awaiting your arrival;

she rousted the shades to greet the –

all who were chieftains on earth.

All the kings of the nations

she bids arise from their thrones.

10 All of them lift up their voices,

and thus they say unto you:

‘So you, too, are feeble as we;

you are become like us.’

11 your pomp has been brought down to Sheol –

the strumming of your lutes:

beneath you the maggots are spread,

your coverlet is worms.

12 How are you fallen from heaven,

you radiant son of the morning!

How are you struck to the ground,

lying stiff, a corpse upon corpses.

13 And you, you did say in your heart,

‘Into heaven I will ascend;

I will set my throne on high

above the stars of God,

and sit on the sacred mountain

in the uttermost parts of the north.

14 I will climb above the cloud-peaks,

and rival the Most High.’

15 But down you are brought to Sheol,

to the very depths of the pit.

16 They who see you will gaze and gaze,

they will ask with eyes intent,

‘Is this the man who startled the earth

and sent tremors through her kingdoms?

17 Who made the world like a desert,

and overthrew her cities;

who left not his prisoners free,

to return each man to his home?’

18 Now in their honoured tombs

all the kings of the nations are lying;

19 but you are cast forth, tombless,

like a hateful untimely birth,

clothed upon with the slain,

whose bodies the sword has pierced,

who go down to the floor of the pit,

like a carcase trodden under foot.

20 You will not be joined unto them

in the place where they lie buried;

because you have ruined your land,

your people you have slaughtered.

May it never be named again –

the race of this evil-doer.

21 Get ready the knife for his sons,

to atone for the guilt of their father;

lest they rise and posses the earth,

and fill the face of the world.

22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of Hosts, cut off from Babylon record and remnant, kith and kin, says the Lord. And I will make it a possession of the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the Lord of Hosts.

The Lord’s invincible world-plan

24 The Lord of Hosts has sworn this oath:

my plan will most surely be done,

and the thing that I purposed will stand.

25 On the land that is mine I will shatter Assyria,

and trample him down on my mountains.

His yoke will oppress them no more,

and his burden will pass from their shoulders

26 This is the purpose formed

to humble all the earth;

and this is the hand outstretched

against the nations all.

27 For who can bring to nothing

what the Lord of Hosts has planned?

And when his is the hand that is outstretched,

who can turn it back?

Warning to Philistia

28 In the year that King Ahaz died, came this oracle:

29 Rejoice not, you Philistines all,

that the rod that has scourged you is broken;

for an asp from the root of the serpent will issue,

its fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

30 For the poor will feed on my meadows,

the needy will lie down secure;

but your seed I will kill with famine,

your remnant I will slay.

31 Wail, you gates; and shriek, you cities:

melt with fear, you Philistines all.

For out of the north comes smoke (of war),

in the ranks of the foe will no straggler be found.

32 What answer will (Judah) make

to the envoys of that nation?

That ‘the Lord himself is the founder of Zion,

and there do his suffering people find refuge.’

Lament over Moab