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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob ,
and will still choose Israel ,
and settle them in their own land .
The strangers will be joined with them ,
and they will cling to the house of Jacob .
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Then people will take them and bring them to their place ,
and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD ;
they will take them captive whose captives they were ,
and rule over their oppressors .
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It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow ,
and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve ,
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that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon ,
and say : "
How the oppressor has ceased ,
The golden city ceased !
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The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked ,
The scepter of the rulers ;
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He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke ,
He who ruled the nations in anger ,
Is persecuted and no one hinders .
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The whole earth is at rest and quiet ;
They break forth into singing .
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Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you ,
And the cedars of Lebanon ,
Saying , "
Since you were cut down ,
No woodsman has come up against us .'
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Hell from beneath is excited about you ,
To meet you at your coming ;
It stirs up the dead for you ,
All the chief ones of the earth ;
It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations .
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They all shall speak and say to you : "
Have you also become as weak as we ?
Have you become like us ?
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Your pomp is brought down to Sheol ,
And the sound of your stringed instruments ;
The maggot is spread under you ,
And worms cover you .'
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How you are fallen from heaven ,
O Lucifer ,
son of the morning !
How you are cut down to the ground ,
You who weakened the nations !
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For you have said in your heart : "
I will ascend into heaven ,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north ;
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ,
I will be like the Most High .'
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Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol ,
To the lowest depths of the Pit .
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Those who see you will gaze at you ,
And consider you ,
saying : "
Is this the man who made the earth tremble ,
Who shook kingdoms ,
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Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities ,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners ?'
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All the kings of the nations ,
All of them ,
sleep in glory ,
Everyone in his own house ;
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But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch ,
Like the garment of those who are slain ,
Thrust through with a sword ,
Who go down to the stones of the pit ,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot .
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You will not be joined with them in burial ,
Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people .
The brood of evildoers shall never be named .
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Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers ,
Lest they rise up and possess the land ,
And fill the face of the world with cities ."
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For I will rise up against them ,"
says the LORD of hosts , "
And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant ,
And offspring and posterity ,"
says the LORD .
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I will also make it a possession for the porcupine ,
And marshes of muddy water ;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction ,"
says the LORD of hosts .
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The LORD of hosts has sworn ,
saying , "
Surely ,
as I have thought ,
so it shall come to pass ,
And as I have purposed ,
so it shall stand :
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That I will break the Assyrian in My land ,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot .
Then his yoke shall be removed from them ,
And his burden removed from their shoulders .
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This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth ,
And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations .
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For the LORD of hosts has purposed ,
And who will annul it ?
His hand is stretched out ,
And who will turn it back ?"
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This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died .
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Do not rejoice ,
all you of Philistia ,
Because the rod that struck you is broken ;
For out of the serpent '
s roots will come forth a viper ,
And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent .
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The firstborn of the poor will feed ,
And the needy will lie down in safety ;
I will kill your roots with famine ,
And it will slay your remnant .
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Wail ,
O gate !
Cry ,
O city !
All you of Philistia are dissolved ;
For smoke will come from the north ,
And no one will be alone in his appointed times ."
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What will they answer the messengers of the nation ?
That the LORD has founded Zion ,
And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it .
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The burden against Moab .
Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed ,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed ,
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He has gone up to the temple and Dibon ,
To the high places to weep .
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba ;
On all their heads will be baldness ,
And every beard cut off .
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In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth ;
On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail ,
weeping bitterly .
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Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out ,
Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz ;
Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out ;
His life will be burdensome to him .
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My heart will cry out for Moab ;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar ,
Like a three-year-old heifer .
For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping ;
For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction ,
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For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate ,
For the green grass has withered away ;
The grass fails ,
there is nothing green .
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Therefore the abundance they have gained ,
And what they have laid up ,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows .
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For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab ,
Its wailing to Eglaim And its wailing to Beer Elim .
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For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood ;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon ,
Lions upon him who escapes from Moab ,
And on the remnant of the land ."
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Send the lamb to the ruler of the land ,
From Sela to the wilderness ,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion .
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For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest ;
So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon .
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Take counsel ,
execute judgment ;
Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day ;
Hide the outcasts ,
Do not betray him who escapes .
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Let My outcasts dwell with you ,
O Moab ;
Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler .
For the extortioner is at an end ,
Devastation ceases ,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land .
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In mercy the throne will be established ;
And One will sit on it in truth ,
in the tabernacle of David ,
Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness ."
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We have heard of the pride of Moab --
He is very proud --
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath ;
But his lies shall not be so .
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Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab ;
Everyone shall wail .
For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn ;
Surely they are stricken .
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For the fields of Heshbon languish ,
And the vine of Sibmah ;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants ,
Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness .
Her branches are stretched out ,
They are gone over the sea .
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Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah ,
With the weeping of Jazer ;
I will drench you with my tears ,
O Heshbon and Elealeh ;
For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest .
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Gladness is taken away ,
And joy from the plentiful field ;
In the vineyards there will be no singing ,
Nor will there be shouting ;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses ;
I have made their shouting cease .
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Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab ,
And my inner being for Kir Heres .
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And it shall come to pass ,
When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place ,
That he will come to his sanctuary to pray ;
But he will not prevail .
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This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time .
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But now the LORD has spoken ,
saying , "
Within three years ,
as the years of a hired man ,
the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude ,
and the remnant will be very small and feeble ."
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The burden against Damascus . "
Behold ,
Damascus will cease from being a city ,
And it will be a ruinous heap .