3. And this shall be in that day: when God will have given you rest from your labor, and from your oppression, and from the difficult servitude under which you served before,
4. you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?
5. The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,
6. which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.
7. All the earth has become quiet and still; it has been gladdened and has rejoiced.
8. The evergreens, too, have rejoiced over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying: 'Since you have slept, no one has ascended who would cut us down.'
9. Hell below was stirred up to meet you at your advent; it has awakened the giants for you. All the leaders of the earth have risen from their thrones, all the leaders among the nations."
10. Everyone will respond and will say to you: "Now you are wounded, just as we were; you have become like us.
11. Your arrogance has been dragged down to Hell. Your body has fallen dead. The moths will be strewn beneath you, and the worms will be your covering.
12. How is it that you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who used to rise like the sun? How is it that you have fallen to the earth, you who wounded the peoples?
13. And you said in your heart: 'I will climb up to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will be enthroned upon the mountain of the covenant, on the northern parts.
14. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.'
15. Yet truly, you shall be dragged down to Hell, into the depths of the pit.
16. Those who see you, will lean toward you, and will gaze upon you, saying: 'Could this be the man who disturbed the earth, who shook kingdoms,