1. The Lord will have compassion on Jacob, will again choose Israel, and will give them rest in their own land. Immigrants will join them, and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
2. The peoples will take them and will bring them to their own place. The house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land, making captives of their captors and ruling their oppressors.
3. When the Lord has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform,
4. you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:How the oppressor has ceased!How the flood has receded!
5. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the rod of tyrants
6. that struck peoples in rage with ceaseless blows,that ruled nations with anger,with relentless aggression.
7. All the earth rests quietly,then it breaks into song.
8. Even the cypresses rejoice over you,the cedars of Lebanon:"Since you were laid low,no logger comes up against us!"