1 The Lord will take pity on Jacob, he will choose Israel again and settle them in their own land. Then foreigners will join them and be counted with the people of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. But as soon as they are back home, the people of Israel will subdue them and make them servants and maids. Thus the people of Israel will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
3 On the day Yahweh gives you rest from your suffering and turmoil, from your fear and your cruel bondage,
4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How has the oppression ceased? How has the strongman ended?
5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the tyrant
6 who struck down the people with blow after blow, who ruled the nations in anger, with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and at peace, breaking forth into song.
8 Even the cypresses exult and the cedars of Lebanon say: "Now that you have fallen, no loggers come to cut us down."
9 The netherworld is all astir to meet you when you come. It stirs up the dead to greet you - all who were leaders of theworld. It raises from their thrones - all who were kings of the nations.
10 They all speak and say to you: "You have also been thrown to the ground and have become like us!
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the Kingdom of death, along with the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you and worms are your blanket.
12 How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cast down to the ground, you who mowed down the nations!
13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne higher than the stars of God; I will sit on the Mount of Assembly, in the far recesses of the North.
14 I will climb up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High!"
15 But down to the netherworld you go, to the deep recesses of the Pit.
16 All who see you stare at you and ponder over your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth, who made kingdoms quake,
17 who made the world a waste, who overthrew its cities and would not give its captives release?"
18 All kings of nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
19 You are nevertheless cast out of the tomb, like a rejected untimely birth, like a trampled corpse buried under the slaughtered, under those cut down by the sword, thrown into the common grave.
20 You were not given a monument for you have brought your land to ruin, and caused your people to be slain. May the descendants of evildoers never be mentioned again!
21 Go up, slaughter the sons for the sins of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the land and cover the earth with their cities.
22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh Sabaoth. "I will cut off from Babylon her name, her remnant, offspring and posterity," says Yahweh.
23 "I will turn her into a swampland, a habitation of reptiles and crocodiles; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh Sabaoth.
24 Yahweh Sabaoth has sworn: "As I have planned, so will it be! As I have decided, so will I do;
25 I will destroy the Assyrian in my land, trample him down on my mountains; take his yoke off my people's neck, and remove his burden from their shoulders.
26 This is the sentence he pronounced for the whole earth; with his hand stretched out over all nations.
27 Yahweh has made a decision, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
28 In the year King Ahaz died this oracle was proclaimed:
29 "Rejoice not, all you Philistines, that the rod which smote you is broken; for from the root of the snake will come forth a viper, and its offspring will be a flying dragon.
30 On that day my poor will have their fill with the fruits of my fields and the helpless will rest secure. But through famine I will kill your children and slay even your remnant.
31 Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! tremble in fear, all you Philistines! For smoke comes from the north - a great army sweeps down on you.
32 What answer will then be given to the messengers of that nation? "Yahweh has laid the foundation of Zion, and there his afflicted people will take refuge."
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Isaiah 14 begins with the prophecy of the fall of the king of Babylon, who had oppressed the people of Israel. The chapter describes the fall of this proud and arrogant king, which will now be reduced to a simple corpse like any other man. Then the people of Israel are summoned to sing a song of triumph, for the oppression of the enemy has come to an end.
Psalm 137:8-9: "O daughter of Babylon, devastating; Happy the one who returned you what you did to us! Happy the one who catches your little children and crushing them against the rock!" This psalm expresses the bitterness of the people of Israel in relation to Babylon, who had destroyed the temple and brought the people into exile.
Jeremiah 50:34: "However, his redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name. He will vigorously defend my people in his cause, so that he may give rest to earth and cause terror to the residents of Babylon." In this verse Jeremiah prophesies the final defeat of Babylon and the liberation of God's people.
Revelation 18:2: "He cried in a strong voice, saying, 'Fell! The great Babylon fell! She became the abode of demons and shelter of every filthy spirit, shelter of every impure and obnoxious bird!'" In this verse of the book Revelation, the fall of Babylon is announced again, this time in the form of a corrupt and immoral city that attracts the wrath of God.
Zechariah 2:7-9: "There, the city of the Lord of hosts! It will be a splendor! He will send his messengers to announce salvation, saying, 'Console, comfort you, O my people, say the Lord. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, saying that she has already fulfilled her time, that her iniquity is forgiven, which has already received twice from the Lord's hand, by all her sins. '"This passage of Zechariah speaks of the restoration of Jerusalem after Babylonian exile and the fall of Babylon.
Revelation 19:1-2: "After these things, I heard in heaven as a great cry of a multitude that said, 'Hallelujah! Salvation, glory and power belong to our God, for true and righteous are their judgments. . He judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her prostitution, and avenged the blood of her servants in her hands! '"This excerpt from the book of Revelation also speaks of the fall of Babylon, now in the form of a" prostitute " which corrupts the earth and is finally judged by God.
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