Isaiah 14

The Restoration of Israel

1But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob,

and set them on their land,

and the immigrant will join himself to them,

2And the nations will take them

and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Yahweh

And this will happen:

they will take their captors captive

The Downfall of the King of Babylon

3And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which you had to perform,[#Literally “was worked by you”]

4that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon,

“How the oppressor has ceased!

5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,

6that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing,

7All of the earth rests and is quiet;

8Even the cypresses rejoice over you,

‘Since you were laid down,

9Sheol below is getting excited over you,

it arouses the dead spirits for you,

10All of them will respond and say to you,

‘You yourself also were made weak like us!

11Your pride is brought down to Sheol,

maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed,

12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn!

13And you yourself said in your heart,

‘I will ascend to heaven;

and I will sit on the mountain of assembly

14I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,[#Hebrew “cloud”]

15But you are brought down to Sheol,

16Those who see you will stare at you,

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

17who made the world like the desert

18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory,

19But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave,

clothed with the slain,

those who go down to the stones of the pit,

20You will not be united with them in burial

because you have destroyed your land,

The descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons

Let them not rise and take possession of the earth

22“And I will rise up against them,”

declares Yahweh of hosts,

“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,

declares Yahweh.

23“And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,

declares Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

24Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

“Surely just as I have intended, so it shall be.

25to break Assyria in my land,

and he shall remove his yoke from them,

26This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth;

27For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it?

Oracle of Judgment on Philistia

28In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:

29You must not rejoice, all you Philistines,

for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake,

30And the firstborn of the poor will graze,

but I will cause your root to die in famine,

31Wail, gate! Cry, city!

For smoke is coming from the north,

32And what will one answer the messengers of the nation?

That Yahweh has founded Zion,

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