Isaiah:14-16

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* For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob , And will yet choose Israel , And will give them rest upon their own soil , And the sojourner , shall join himself , unto them , And they shall attach themselves unto the house of Jacob ; * And peoples shall take them , and bring them into their own place , And the house of Israel shall possess themselves of them upon the soil of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids , Thus shall they be taking captive their captors , And shall tread down their oppressors . * And it shall come to pass , in the day when Yahweh shall give thee rest flora thy toil , and from thy disquiet , and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee , * that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon , and shalt say : How hath ceased the oppressor ! Ceased the exactress ! * Broke hath Yahweh the staff of the lawless , The sceptre of despots ; * Smiting peoples in passion With stroke unremitting , Trampling , in anger , on nations , Persecution unhindered . * Quiet , at rest , the whole earth , Men have burst into shouting ! * Yea the pine-trees , make mirth at thee , Cedars of Lebanon , Since thou wast laid low , No feller hath come up against us ! * Hades beneath , is excited about thee To meet thine arrival , Rousing up , for thee Shades , All the he-goats of earth ! Maketh rise from their thrones , All the kings of the nations . * All of them , answer , and say to thee , Thou too , made strengthless , as we ! Unto us , art thou like ! * Brought down to Hades , thy pride . The hum of thy harps , Beneath thee , is spread out corruption , And , thy coverletworms ! * How hast thou fallen from heaven , O Shining One Son of the Dawn ! Hewn down to the earth , O crusher of nations ! * Yet , thou , didst say in thy heart The heavens , will I ascend , Above the stars of GOD , will I lift up my throne , That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly In the Recesses of the North : * I will mount on the hills of the clouds , I will match the Most High ! * Howbeit , to Hades , shalt thou be brought down , To the Recesses of the Pit ! * They who see thee , upon thee , will gaze , Upon thee , will thoughtfully muse , Is this the man who startled the earth ? Who terrified kingdoms ? * Who made the world like a desert And its cities , brake down ? Its prisoners , he loosed not . Bach one to his home . * All the kings of the nationsthey all , are lying in state Each one in his crypt ; * But , thou , art flung out from thy grave , Like a scion detested , Beshrouded with slain , the pierced of the sword , Like a carcase trod underfoot : * As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit , Thou shalt not be united with them in burial ; For thy land , thou didst ruin Thy people , didst slay , Unnamed to times ago-abiding , Be the seed of the wicked ! * Preparefor his sonsshambles . For the iniquity of their fathers , They shall not rise nor possess the earth , Nor fill the face of the world with cities . * I will rise . Then . against them , Declareth Yahweh of hosts , And will cut off from Babylon Record and remnant And scion and seed , Declareth Yahweh . * And will make her a possession for the bittern , And marshes of water , And will sweep it with the besom of destruction , Declareth Yahweh of hosts . * Yahweh of hosts , hath sworn , saying , Surely as I intended , so , hath it come to pass , And as I purposed , the same , shall stand : * That I will break in pieces the Assyrian in my land , Yea upon my mountains , will I tread him underfoot , So shall be removed from off them his yoke , And his burden , from off their shoulder shall be removed . * This , is the purpose that is purposed upon all the earth , And , this , the hand outstretched over all the nations ; * For , Yahweh of hosts , hath purposed , And who shall frustrate ? And , his , is the hand outstretched , And who shall turn it back ? * In the year that King Ahaz died , came this oracle : * Do not rejoice , Philistia , any of thee , In that the rod of him that smote thee , is broken , For , out of the root of the serpent , shall come forth , a viper , And his fruit be a fiery dragon that flieth . * Then shall feed the firstborn of the poor , And the needy , in confidence lie down , And I will kill with famine thy root , And thy residue , shall be slain . * Howl O gate , Make outcry O city , Dispersed art thou Philistia , all of thee , For out of the north , a smoke cometh in , With no straggler in his ranks . * What , then , shall one answer the messengers of a nation ? That Yahweh , hath founded Zion , And in her , shall seek refuge the oppressed of his people . * The oracle on Moab : Because , in a night , was laid waste Ar of Moabdestroyed ! Because , in a night , was laid waste Kir of Moabdestroyed , * He hath gone up to Bayith and Dibon , to the high places , to weep , On Nebo and on Medeba , Moab is howling , On all their heads , a baldness , Every beard , clipped . * In their streets , have they girded them with sackcloth , On their housetops , and in their broadways , every one is howlingmelting in tears ; * And Heshbon , hath made outcry , and Elealeh , Unto Jahaz , hath been heard their voice , For this cause , do the armed men of Moab roar , Every mans soul , quivereth to him . * Mine own heart , for Moab continueth to make outcry , Her fugitive , as far as Zoar , is like a heifer of three years ; For the accent of Luhith , with weeping , they ascend , For by the way of Horonaiman outcry of destruction , they excite ; * For , the waters of Nimrim , shall become desolation , For grass , hath dried up , Herbage hath failed , Green thing , hath not sprung up ! * For this cause , the savings they had made and that which they had stored , Over the torrent-bed of the willows , shall they bear them . * For the outcry hath gone round the boundary of Moab , As far as Eglaim , the howling thereof , And to Beer-elim , the howling thereof . * For the waters of Dimon , are full of blood , For I will lay upon Dimon new troubles , To the escaped of Moab , the lions , Even to the survivors on the soil . * Send ye the lamb due to the ruler of the land , From Sela towards the desert , Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion ; * Yet shall it be that Like wandering birds from a nest cast forth , Shall be the daughters of Moab , at the fords of Amen . * Bring thou , in counsel , Execute thou judgment , Make as the night , thy shadow in the midst of high noon , Hide thou the outcasts , The wanderer , do not thou reveal . * Let mine own outcasts , sojourn with thee , O Moab , become thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler , For vanished is the oppressor , At an end is extortion , They who tread down have ceased out of the land . * So shall be established , in lovingkindness , a throne , And one shall sit thereon , in truth , in the home of David , Judgingand seeking justice and speeding righteousness . * We have heard of the arrogance of Moab , Proud exceedingly ! His haughtiness and his arrogance and his passion , Not true , are his boastings . * Therefore shall , Moab , howl for , Moab , All that belong to her , shall wail , For the ruins of Kir-hareseth , shall they moan out Utterly stricken ! * For , the fields of Heshbon are withered The vine of Sibmah , the owners of nations , have broken off ruddy branches , Unto Jazer , had they reached , They had spread abroad to the desert , Her boughs , had stretched forth , had gone over to the sea . * For this cause , will I bewail , in the wailing of Jazer , The vine of Sibmah , I will drench thee with my tears , O Heshbon and Elealeh , For , upon thy fruit-harvest , and upon thy grain-harvest , the battle-shout , hath fallen . * Now shall be withdrawn rejoicing and exultation out of the garden-land , And , in the vineyards , shall be neither singing nor shouting , Wine in the winepress , the treader , shall not tread , The vintage-shout , have I made to cease . * For this cause , mine inward partsfor Moab , like a lyre , shall make a plaintive sound , Yea what is within me , for Kir-heres . * And it shall be When it is seen that Moab hath laboured in vain on the high place , He shall enter into his holy place to pray , and shall not prevail , * This , is the word which Yahweh spake concerning Moab in , time past ; * But now , hath Yahweh spoken saying , In three years , as the years of a hireling , shall the glory of Moab be diminished , with all the great multitude , even a very small remnant , of no account . * The oracle on Damascus , Lo ! Damascus , is to be removed from being a city , And shall become a heap of ruins :

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