Isaiah 14:4-28
4you will take up this ataunt against the king of Babylon:“How the oppressor has ceased,
bthe insolent fury ▼
▼Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain
ceased!5The Lord has broken the dstaff of the wicked,
the escepter of rulers,
6 fthat struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
gthey break forth into singing.
8 h, iThe cypresses rejoice at you,
jthe cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’
9Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 kAll of them will answer
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!’
11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.
12 “How lyou are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, mson of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13You said in your heart,
n‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
oI will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north; ▼
▼Or in the remote parts of Zaphon
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 qBut you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this rthe man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
swho did not let his prisoners go home?’
18All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb; ▼
▼Hebrew house
19but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
uclothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.
20You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
“May vthe offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
21Prepare slaughter for his sons
wbecause of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and xremnant, ydescendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23“And I will make it a possession of the zhedgehog, ▼
▼Possibly porcupine, or owl
and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts. An Oracle Concerning Assyria
24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:ab“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
25that acI will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and adhis yoke shall depart from them,
and aehis burden from their shoulder.”
26 This is the purpose that is purposed
concerning the whole earth,
and this is afthe hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
27 agFor the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
ahHis hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
An Oracle Concerning Philistia
28In the year that aiKing Ahaz died came this ajoracle:
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