Isaiah:14

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* For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob Ya #aqob #, and will yet choose Israel Yisra #el #, and set them in their own land : and the strangers shall be joined with them , and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob Ya #aqob #. * And the people shall take them , and bring them to their place : and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids : and they shall take them captives , whose captives they were ; and they shall rule over their oppressors . * And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow , and from thy fear , and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve , * That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon , and say , How hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! * The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked , and the sceptre of the rulers . * He who smote the people in wrath with a continual biltiy # stroke , he that ruled the nations in anger , is persecuted , and none hindereth . * The whole earth is at rest , and is quiet : they break forth into singing . * Yea , the fir trees rejoice at thee , and the cedars of Lebanon , saying , Since thou art laid down , no feller is come up against us . * Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for thee , even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations . * All they shall speak and say unto thee , Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us ? * Thy pomp is brought down to the grave sh @#owl #, and the noise of thy viols : the worm is spread under thee , and the worms cover thee . * How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ! * For thou hast said in thine heart , I will ascend into heaven , I will exalt my throne above the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation mow #ed #, in the sides of the north : * I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the most High . * Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell sh @#owl #, to the sides of the pit . * They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee , and consider thee , saying , Is this the man that made the earth to tremble , that did shake kingdoms ; * That made the world as a wilderness , and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners ? * All the kings of the nations , even all of them , lie in glory , every one in his own house . * But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch , and as the raiment of those that are slain , thrust through with a sword , that go down to the stones of the pit ; as a carcase trodden under feet . * Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial , because thou hast destroyed thy land , and slain thy people : the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned . * Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers ; that they do not rise , nor possess the land , nor fill the face of the world with cities #. * For I will rise up against them , saith the LORD of hosts , and cut off from Babylon the name , and remnant sh @#ar #, and son , and nephew , saith the LORD . * I will also make it a possession for the bittern , and pools of water : and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction , saith the LORD of hosts . * The LORD of hosts hath sworn , saying , Surely as I have thought , so shall it come to pass ; and as I have purposed , so shall it stand : * That I will break the Assyrian in my land , and upon my mountains tread him under foot : then shall his yoke depart from off them , and his burden depart from off their shoulders . * This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth : and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations . * For the LORD of hosts hath purposed , and who shall disannul it ? and his hand is stretched out , and who shall turn it back ? * In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden . * Rejoice not thou , whole Palestina , because the rod of him that smote thee is broken : for out of the serpents root shall come forth a cockatrice , and his fruit shall be a fiery # flying serpent . * And the firstborn of the poor shall feed , and the needy shall lie down in safety : and I will kill thy root with famine ra #ab #, and he shall slay thy remnant sh @#eriyth #. * Howl , O gate sha #ar #; cry , O city ; thou , whole Palestina , art dissolved : for there shall come from the north a smoke , and none shall be alone in his appointed times mow #ad #. * What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation ? That the LORD hath founded Zion , and the poor of his people shall trust in it .

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