XIV. 1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet (again) choose Israel, and set them on their own ground: and the stranger shall join himself unto them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place and the house of Israel shall take them as their possession upon the ’s ground for servants and for handmaids; and they shall be captors to their captors 3 and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall be in that day that the LORD giveth thee rest from thy pain and thy disquiet, and from the hard bondage which was laid upon thee,
4 That thou shalt take up this ’parable over the king Of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the insolence ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the the rod of rulers,
6 Which smote peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, ruled over nations in anger with a pursuit that none restrained.
7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break forth into Singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down, the feller cometh not up against us.
9 Hell (from) beneath is disquieted for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the Shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; ’ raiseth from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall answer and say ’unto thee, Thou also art made weak as we ἦ thou art made like unto us!
11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, the noise of thy viols; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worm is thy covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the dawn; how art thou hewn down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations!
13 And thou, thou sajdst in thy heart, I will ascend the heavens; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the recesses of the pit.
16 They that see thee shall look narrowly on thee, shall gaze earnestly on thee: Is this the man that did disquiet the earth, that made kingdoms tremble?
17 (That) made the world as a wilderness, and broke down the cities thereof; that loosed not his prisoners homeward 18 All ’s of nations, all of them, have lain down in glory, each in his house.
19 But thou art cast out away from thy sepulchre like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled carcase.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou ’destroyed thy land, slain thy people: the seed of evil doers shall not be named, for ever.
21 Prepare for his sons (a place of) slaughter, for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name, and remnant, and issue, and offspring: saith the LORD.
23 And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it away with the besom of destruction, ’the LORD of Hosts.
24 The LORD of Hosts hath- Sworn, saying, Surely as I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, that shall stand:
25 To break Asshur in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke shall remove from off them, and his burden shall remove from off his shoulder.
26 This is the purpose which is purposed upon the whole earth; and this 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 is the outstretched hand, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden.
29 Rejoice not, Philistia, all. of thee, that the rod which smote thee is broken: for out of the ’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit a flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in security; and I will kill-thy root with. famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31 Howl, gate; cry, city; melt away, Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
32 And what shall one answer the messengers of a nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his ’e take refuge.
Isaias. . ed. Richard Rusden Ottley. Germany. 2016.
Sponsored by University of Leipzig.
Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.